Set up scheduling

We're going to make a shell script which PythonAnywhere will execute on a schedule. A free account is only allowed to run one scheduled task per day, but if you want to tweet more than that you can get unlimited scheduled tasks for about $5 per month on PythonAnywhere or other hosting services like Digital Ocean. You can read more about choosing and configuring hosting at BotWiki.

For our free once per day bot,

Add a file called send_tweet.sh to the hello-world-bot directory with the following contents:
```
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/$USER/hello-world-bot/
python3 bot.py
```
On the bash console, make sure you're in the hello-world-bot directory and run
```
chmod +x send_tweet.sh
```
This will give PythonAnywhere permission to run the script.
Visit the "Schedule" tab on PythonAnywhere
Add a new scheduled task which points to /home/[your username]/hello-world-bot/send_tweet.sh and runs within the next couple of minutes. Note that the system time is in the UTC timezone, which may not be the same as your own timezone!
You'll be able to tell if the scheduled task is working correctly if a tweet is posted at the time you configured it for. If something went wrong, you can remove the task and set it up again with a different time.

Set up scheduling

Set up scheduling

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