Every_day_Comics

We will create VK public group to post Randall Munroe Comics.

Let's start

Prerequisites

Please be sure that Python3 is already installed.

Installing

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/MiraNizam/Every_day_Comics.git

2. Create a new virtual environment env in the directory

pip install virtualenv

cd <project_path>

python -m virtualenv env

3. Activate the new environment

source env/bin/activate (for Linux or any Posix)

env\Scripts\activate (for Windows)

4. Use pip (or pip3, if there is a conflict with Python2) to install dependencies in new environment:

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Create empty file .env for your private data

6. Go to your VK page and:

   • create a new group
   • create a new app manage_app with standalone type
   • add your CLIENT_ID in .env
   • get key access using Implicit Flow You will need the following permissions: photos, groups, wall and offline. Remove the redirect_uri parameter
   • add your VK_TOKEN and GROUP_ID(ID) in .env
   • find actual VK version, now it 5.131
   • add actual version as VERSION in .env

How to run code

python vk_api.py

Go to the group and look at the new post.