Raspberry Pi bot tweets when speeds are lousy

This post is inspired from Engadget article. I have added more detailed instructions to the same.

Follow the steps below:

• Install python
  
  sudo apt-get install python python-pip

• Install Twitter's python wrapper
  
  pip install twitter

• Install Speedtest-cli
  
  pip install speedtest-cli

• Login to https://apps.twitter.com and create a new application.
  
  Copy the Consumer Key & Consumer Secret
  
  Generate Access Token & Access Token Secret

• Create a directory for the script
  
  sudo mkdir /opt/speedtest

• Copy the script from Github to /opt/speedtest
  

• Edit the script and add the Keys and Secrets to line 38-41.

• Add a hourly or daily cron job.
  
  0 * * * * /opt/speedtest/speedtest-xfinity.py

Note: Additionally, you can run the speedtest-cli to find the nearest server.
speedtest-cli --list
The above command line option shows the list of servers sorted according to distance.
Use the server number from above at line 13 in the script.