Twitter Bot created to automatically reply posts with a custom message on twitter
To replicate this app, follow the steps below:
- Create a twitter developer account here
- Create an AWS account or if you have one sign in to your management console
- Store your credentials as parameter in the aws parameter store
- From your management console, switch to the Lambda panel
- Next, you are going to create a lambda function with the python runtime
- Ensure that your Lambda role allows you access to parameter store
- Create a folder and install a python virtual environment in that folder with the code
python -m venv v-env - Activate the virtual environment
$ source v-env/scripts/activate - Install the tweepy and boto3 packages
pip install tweepy boto3 - Download the lambda_function.py and include it in your code folder
- Copy the lamda_function.py to the "lib/site-packages" folder and zip all the files in the folder
- On your lambda config panel, search for upload a zip file and upload your zipped site-packages folder
- Add your custom message and accounts to auto reply as environmental variables
- Create a cloudwatch rule to trigger your lambda function over a given period
- And you are good to go!!!!!