Game Genre a Day

Tweet a strange and whimsical genre idea per day

This is a twitter bot which generates and tweets a new video game genre every day for the purposes of sparking intelligent and interesting conversations and building up a community around discussions of video game genres.

This bot runs entirely within Github Actions!

You can use this repo as an example of setting up a twitter bot on a schedule.

All you need:

• A twitter account
• An idea

How it works

• Here's where we generate a game genre.
• Here's a script which tweets a single genre.
• Here's the Github Actions workflow which automatically tweets once a day.

To get set up with your own bot:

1. Fork or copy this repo
2. Update the generate() function in ./generator.ts to generate any kind of tweet you like.
3. Create a developer account for which ever twitter account you want to interact with.
4. Create a project in your developer account. Collect your API Key and Secret
5. Generate an Access token & Secret for your project.
6. Set your API_KEY, API_SECRET, ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY, and ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET as environment variables in the Secrets tab of your repo settings so they are accessible to the main script
7. Update the "schedule" frequency to tweet as often as you like! This site is helpful for picking your CRON frequency.
8. You can test out your workflow on its "Actions" page using a manual trigger.