CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

[10.0] - 2022-01-31

Changed

• remove Unsplash images as they do not add much to the tweets
• remove special tweet for the last day
• a few tweet re-wordings

[9.0] - 2022-01-07

Added

• tweet weeks on the actual start of the week (Monday), tweet with the number of the week, and how many weeks and days are left
• remove tweeting days every day in the last month
• remove special weeks text tweet in the last month

[8.1] - 2022-01-06

Changed

• images should reflect the current season
• tweeting every fifth day is removed, the bot now only tweets which week it is and how many there are till the end
• added special tweet text for Christmas

Code

• Take API keys from a separate file
• Replace wget package, which has not been updated since 2015 with requests for image downloading
• Replace pyunsplash package with requests for sending the API request to Unsplash.com
• moved tweeting part into twitter.py

[8.0] - 2021-06-01

Added

• to make tweets more interesting, the bot will grab a positive nature photo from Unsplash, and add it when tweeting how many days there are till the end of the year

[7.0] - 2021-02-13

Added

• counts how many days passed since the new year and tweets it alongside of other data

Changed

• changed text tweets
• removed changing bio on the first day of the year

Code

• started using f-strings

[6.0] - 2021-01-01

Changed

• "only ** days left until the end of the year" will be tweeted when there are only 31 days left instead of 30
• tweet "only ** weeks left until the end of the year" in the last month
• how many days till the end of the year will be tweeted only every fifth day until the last month, instead of every tenth day

Code

• bot now on its own determines which year is it, when does it end and which year is next, so no changes are needed when a new year starts

[5.1] - 2021-01-01

Changed

• tweet with "only ** days left until the end of the year" in the last month, instead of the last 20 days
• also tweet how many days until the end of the year on the first day
• updated for a new year
• changed text in bio

[5.0] - 2020-12-26

Changed

• when there are less than 20 days it will start tweeting with "only ** days till the end of the year"
• changed text for bio

Code

• bot was moved to PythonAnywhere scheduled tasks
• removed schedule and time module
• added full path to the new profile image

[4.0] - 2020-12-24

Changed

• if there are more than 50 days till the end of the year it will only tweet every tenth day instead of tweeting every day

[3.1] - 2020-12-12

Added

• change profile picture on the first day of the year
• change bio to reflect a new year on the first day of the year

[3.0] - 2020-12-02

Changed

• changed how function calculate_weeks works, now it only tweets when there are exactly that many weeks until the end of year
• if tweeting weeks is appropriate it will tweet only tweet weeks that day, without also tweeting days
• fixed other grammar issues

Code

• merged calculate_weeks and calculate_days functions into one endOfYearCountdown function
• merged schedule tasks from individual days all to one day

[2.0] - 2020-02-18

Changed

• changed text in tweets
• tweets scheduled with schedule module

[1.0] - 2020-02-01

• Initial release