tweet.py

from random import shuffle
from os.path import isfile, join
from os import listdir
import os
import tweepy
import time

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler('xxx', 'xxx')
auth.set_access_token('xxx', 'xxx')

api = tweepy.API(auth)

INCLUDED_KEYWORDS = ["senior", "software", "engineer"]
EXCLUDED_KEYWORDS = ["available", "purchase"]
MIN_TWEET_LENGTH = 50
REPLY_TEXT = "Nice"
IMAGES_FOLDER = "./images/"
SECS_TO_WAIT_BEFORE_TWEETING = 5
TWEETS_TO_FETCH_PER_USER = 10

# 1000 - 1500 user accounts file
user_accounts = []
with open('./useraccounts.txt') as f:
    user_accounts = [line.rstrip() for line in f]

# 2 images out of image folder
images = [f for f in listdir(IMAGES_FOLDER)
          if isfile(join(IMAGES_FOLDER, f))]
shuffle(images)

for user_account in user_accounts:
    for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.user_timeline, id=user_account, lang='en').items(TWEETS_TO_FETCH_PER_USER):
        if all(word in tweet.text.lower().split() for word in INCLUDED_KEYWORDS) and all(word not in tweet.text.lower().split() for word in EXCLUDED_KEYWORDS) and len(tweet.text) >= MIN_TWEET_LENGTH:
            status = api.get_status(tweet.id, tweet_mode="extended")
            try:
                print(status.retweeted_status.full_text)
            except AttributeError:  # Not a Retweet

                time.sleep(SECS_TO_WAIT_BEFORE_TWEETING)

                print(
                    f"Liking/Retweeting tweet {tweet.id} of {tweet.author.name}")
                # Like
                api.create_favorite(tweet.id)
                # Retweet
                api.retweet(tweet.id)
                # Reply
                media_ids = []
                for img in images[:2]:
                    res = api.media_upload(IMAGES_FOLDER + img)
                    media_ids.append(res.media_id)

                reply_status = "@%s %s" % (user_account, REPLY_TEXT)
                api.update_status(status=reply_status,
                                  in_reply_to_status_id=tweet.id_str, media_ids=media_ids)