Exploring Art with Python: Building an Italian Art Bot
summary
A Python bot that posts Italian paintings on BlueSky, built by scraping WikiArt via requests and trimming an initial ~18,000 images down to 1,700 shortlisted images; the app uses Flask + Postgres on Vercel + a Render worker, selects a random unpublished record, uploads the image with BlueSky’s two‑step API and publishes three times daily via cron-job.org. Deployment is low‑cost and reliable with occasional sleep/errors from serverless functions handled by retry/fail logic.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to project
- 3:57Choosing Italian art bot
- 10:43Filtering and selecting images
- 13:17Building the Python bot
- 16:28Deploying to cloud services
- 19:39Lessons and future steps
- 21:49Q&A session
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