The following instructions were tested with Ubuntu 22.10, and assumes a stock OS
Edit config.json to fit your setup
First, get everything updated by running sudo apt-get update
Verify Python is installed by running python3 --version
or python --version
. Versions 3.8, 3.9, and 3.10 are supported (This includes versions like 3.10.7)
Run the following command: git clone https://github.com/dylanpdx/BetterTwitFix
This will download all the code for vxTwitter. Once that is done, you can run cd BetterTwitFix
to enter the newly downloaded folder.
Install pip and venv by running the following command: apt install python3-pip python3-venv
Create a virtual enviornment for all of BetterTwitFix's dependencies to live in by running python3 -m venv venv
and then source venv/bin/activate
After that completes, install all the requirements for BetterTwitFix by running pip3 install -r requirements.txt
and then pip3 install uwsgi
Test that everything is correct by running python3 twitfix.py
. If all worked out well you should see a message that says it's running! You're not done yet though (unless you're running a dev environment)! Press CTRL+C to exit out of that for now.
Edit the twitfix.service file. You can use nano for this by running nano twitfix.service
Edit the variables under the [Service] secton. User and Group will need to be changed to the user you want to run this under, and WorkingDirectory, Environment, and ExecStart will all need to have /home/dylan/BetterTwitFix
replaced with the directory you downloaded the code to. After that, you can save & exit the file (CTRL+X then Y
on nano) and copy it to your system services by running sudo cp twitfix.service /etc/systemd/system/
Finally, get everything going by running systemctl start twitfix
and systemctl enable twitfix
this script uses the youtube-dl python module, along with flask, twitter and pymongo, so install those with pip (you can use pip install -r requirements.txt
) and start the server with python twitfix.py
After that, you need to set up an nginx proxy to point towards /tmp/twitfix.sock
, which isn't covered here.
The following instructions were tested with Ubuntu 22.10, and assumes a stock OS
Edit config.json to fit your setup
First, install docker by following these instructions: Install using the apt repository
Run the following command: git clone https://github.com/dylanpdx/BetterTwitFix
This will download all the code for vxTwitter. Once that is done, you can run cd BetterTwitFix
to enter the newly downloaded folder.
Remove the following lines in twitfix.ini:
socket = /var/run/twitfix.sock
chmod-socket = 660
and replace with
socket = 0.0.0.0:9000
buffer-size = 8192
Finally, run this command to set up everything through Docker: docker-compose up -d --build
This assumes your AWS credentials are set up
Run the following command: git clone https://github.com/dylanpdx/BetterTwitFix
Enter into that directory and install serverless framework into it by running npm install -g serverless
Then run serverless deploy
Finally, set up a new API gateway resource to point towards the main Lambda function (should start with vxTwitter)