As per my previous post (specifically the “Logging to database: (SQLite)” paragraph) I am logging detected flights to SQL database, with a small bit of code we can tweet when certain aircraft are detected overhead:

First create a twitter account if not done so already.

Next setup tweepy for python and get your twitter authentication tokens using this tutorial: https://realpython.com/twitter-bot-python-tweepy/

Finally replace the last line of the exiting write to database code at my GitHub with:

    for index, row in df1.iterrows():
        if df1['hex'][index] == 'HEX_CODE_YOU_WANT_TO_TWEET_ABOUT': 
            print("Found")
            import tweepy
            # Authenticate to Twitter
            auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler("AUTH_TOKEN","AUTH_TOKEN")
            auth.set_access_token("AUTH_TOKEN","AUTH_TOKEN")
            api = tweepy.API(auth)

            try:
                api.verify_credentials()
                print("Authentication OK")
                api.update_status('Tweet Text' + str(dateTime))

            except:
                print("Error during authentication")
        else:
            print("Hex was: ", df1['hex'][index])

    exit()

That’s it, happy tweeting!