Twitter Bot + CRON

This bot was created to feed the twitter account of #AprendizajeLibre with tweets stored in a text file

Version

1.0.1

Tech

We use the following libraries:

• Twython - Python wrapper for the Twitter API

Installation

You need Python2.7, and pip to be previously installed:

$ pip install twython

some times you need sudo privileges to execute

Then you have to clone the repository

$ git clone [git-repo-url] /path/to/repo

And finally you have to ask for a twitter accestoken

1. To use this method, you have to register a cellphone number to the Twitter account that you want to automate.

2. Create a Twitter App, following this steps:

   • Follow this link twitter developers
   • Click on "Create New App"
   • Fill the form and accept use terms.
   • Once created, go to the tab "Permissions" and change the permissions to "Read, Write and Access direct messages"
   • And finally go to "Keys and Access Tokens" and click over "Create My Access Token"

3. Fill the infotmation

   # Claves de la aplicacion Twitter
   app_key = "Consumer key"
   app_secret = "Consumer secret"
   oauth_token = "Access token"
   oauth_token_secret = "Access token secret"

Adding excecution to CRON

Execute the following command:

$ crontab -e

The next lines, are an example of crontab schedule syntax that executes the bot every 30 minutes from 17 to 22 hours every day.

*/30 17-22 * * 1-7 /path/to/repo/bot.sh

Special thanks to:

• PythonDiario