April 2021
This project was actually my very first contact with Python.
One of my favorite TV Shows of all time is Wynonna Earp. After rewatching the episodes many times, I started keeping a .txt file with my favorite quotes from the episodes.
I had seen a couple of Twitter bots that released verses from songs, such as folklorebot. This gave me the idea to try and create my own bot, using the quotes I had already written down from the show.
Quoting Earp releases a quote per hour from one of the 49 episodes of the show. The bot selects a random quote from one of the almost 600 quotes available in a json file. The bot is hosted on Heroku.
If it weren't for this passion project and for this show I love, I wouldn't have decided to study Data Science a few months later. For that, I will always be grateful.
PS.: Since back in April 2021 I knew very little from git and the importance of writing good, descriptive commit messages, I decided to start a new git repo from scratch. From here on out, the commit messages will follow Udacity's Commit Message Style Guide.
quotes.json
As a newbie in Python, I scoured the internet for the most basic things: installing git, installing VSCode, installing Python, and programming the bot itself.
This article by Michelle Aniuchi and her GitHub repo helped me a lot. Her bot tweeted a quote per day from the hit HBO show, Game of Thrones.
Another article that helped me was this one from Emily Cain. She created a Twitter bot to generate fictional drug names, and then insert them in a randomly generated template.