Gather Tweet Display

This is a simple script used to display the latest Tweet from a given account in Gather Town. The script generates an image for the tweet and displays it on a given map.

This script assumes that you are able to serve the generated images on a web server you own.

Setup

Clone or download the repo.

Install python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make a copy of the config.ini.example file to create config.ini

cp config.ini.example config.ini

Fill in all the fields:

• DOMAIN specifies the domain at which the images will be served
• TOKEN is your Twitter app only Bearer Token
• USERID is the ID of the target Twitter user
• API_KEY is your Gather API key
• SPACE_ID is your Gather Space ID
• OBJECT_NAME is the name of the object which will be updated on the map
• MAP_ID is the id of the Gather map

In Gather, create a new object with a name set to the OBJECT_NAME value you have (e.g. tweetd).

Now setup a web server to host the generated images under DOMAIN. Make sure you set an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to either a wildcard * or to https://gather.town. The generated images will be in a folder called static.

Finally, run app.py either in a screen or as a service.