How to Sending Tweets Using ThingSpeak with Raspberry Pi

You need to automatically send tweets from your Raspberry Pi. Today I show you, How to Sending Tweets Using ThingSpeak with Raspberry Pi. for example, to irritate people by telling them the temperature of your CPU.

≡ Components Required :

Here is a list of the hardware we suggest for this tutorial on ThingSpeak Tweets Raspberry Pi

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≡ Create ThingSpek Account :

ThingSpeak is similar to Raspberry Pi Email send with IFTTT but is pointed squarely at IoT projects. It allows you to create channels that can store and retrieve data using web requests, and also contains a number of activities, including ThingTweet, which provides web services wrapper around Twitter. This is often less demanding to utilize than the Twitter API, which needs you to register your application with Twitter. Start by going by https://thingspeak.com and signing up.

At that point select the ThingTweet action. You'll be provoked to log in to Twitter.

The ThingTweet action

Now you have to time link your twitter account screenshot below.

The ThingTweet action

You can see Your API key On this page, copy down the API key and past on your python Program

The ThingTweet action

≡ Preparing your Raspberry Pi for this project:

In this section, we’ll be showing you how to Raspberry Pi for this project. if you First-time run project you have to need to update your raspberry pi You’ll do this by running the following commands.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

Now you have to need library install for this project You’ll do this by running the following commands.

pip install urllib3

Or
sudo apt-get install urllib2

≡ Code ThingSpeak Tweets Raspberry Pi:

The Python program to ThingSpeak Tweets Raspberry Pi

import time, os, urllib, urllib2

MAX_TEMP = 37.0
MIN_T_BETWEEN_WARNINGS = 60 # Minutes

BASE_URL = 'https://api.thingspeak.com/apps/thingtweet/1/statuses/update/'
KEY = '68LZC4LBMMMO6YDY'

def send_notification(temp):
    status = 'Hello Raspberry Pi getting hot. CPU temp=' + temp
    data = urllib.urlencode({'api_key' : KEY, 'status': status})
    response = urllib2.urlopen(url=BASE_URL, data=data)
    print(response.read())

def cpu_temp():
    dev = os.popen('/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp')
    cpu_temp = dev.read()[5:-3]
    return cpu_temp
    
while True:
    temp = cpu_temp()
    print("CPU Temp (C): " + str(temp))
    if temp > MAX_TEMP:
        print("CPU TOO HOT!")
        send_notification(temp)
        print("No more notifications for: " + str(MIN_T_BETWEEN_WARNINGS) + 
" mins")
        time.sleep(MIN_T_BETWEEN_WARNINGS * 60)
    time.sleep(1)

Before running the program, you’ll have to get an get to the key for the Maker Action channel by selecting Channels, and after that searching for Maker. Paste the key into thingtweetl.py on the line that begins KEY= and then run the program using the screenshot below:

The ThingTweet action