The goal of this project is to automate the process of creating the basic Twitter-screenshot style meme.

motivation

What I like to call the “Twitter-screenshot meme” is a meme format that was invented by taking a screenshot of a tweet with an image attachment. For example, the following image is a Twitter-screenshot meme:

To format this way, I would go through these steps:

1. Open Twitter on my phone
2. Compose a new Tweet and attach an image
3. Post the Tweet
4. Take a screenshot of the Tweet
5. Crop the screenshot to a square

I was able to go through these steps in about 45 seconds when I had a string of text and image ready.

Normally, I would want to create about 7-9 of these memes for each account at the beginning of the week, and then post once or twice a day throughout the week. I had 5 accounts so this would take me around 30 minutes a week just doing the mechanical work of steps 1-5.

getting Started

Clone: git clone https://github.com/evmarts/meme-maker.git

Run the script: python meme-maker.py

prerequisites

• Python

built With

• Python Imaging Library (PIL)

examples

Suppose we have a string of text, an image and we would like to make a meme out of them:

You win this round, cheese

Once the image is stored in the in/ directory, we can run the Python script:

$ python meme-maker.py
path of image to use: in/img.jpg
enter a caption: You win this round, cheese
saved image as: meme.png

and the image meme.jpg will be stored in the out/ directory:

authors

• Evan James Martin