Automated Tweetbot

Problem

Describe the user pain, gap, or technical challenge that motivated the work.

Solution

A Raspberry Pi-friendly automation for posting gold and silver updates to X, Telegram, and Facebook with caching, retries, and market-hour awareness.

Tech Stack

Python, Tweepy, Telegram Bot API, Requests, Cron, Raspberry Pi

Features

• Automated X price posts
• Telegram and Facebook bot variants
• Gold and silver price cache
• Market-hours logic
• Retry and rate-limit handling

Architecture & Development Process

Challenges

• Reducing API calls while keeping prices fresh
• Handling market-close periods and previous-session close calculations

Lessons Learned

• Automation needs observability, local state, and clear failure handling
• Small cache files can make personal bots much more reliable

Roadmap

• Add dashboard logs
• Move secrets fully into managed environment variables
• Add richer post templates