Yinzbot

A google appengine-based twitter bot to post from a reddit feed. See it in action @YinzBot

Features

1. Tweet reddit posts with a score of 5 or higher
2. add #hashtag of the subreddit post is in
3. Auto follow back
4. post #FF message, selected from followers who mention or RT the bot
5. find new friends via #FF's on your timeline

Setup

Configuration is easy, in the source folder you will find config-sample.yaml that contains:

consumer_key: ""
consumer_secret: ""
access_token: ""
access_token_secret: ""
user-agent: '@Yinzbot your friendly neighborhood reddit->twitter boti | maintained by /u/jkirchartz'
subreddit: 'pittsburgh+penguins+buccos+steelers+pittsburghlocalmusic'
username: 'yinzbot'

Note: Reddit prefers your username in the user-agent.

To set it up:

1. set up an appengine
2. set up a Twitter Account
3. set up a New Twitter App
4. rename config-sample.yaml to config.yaml
5. Insert your consumer keys and access tokens for your twitter app
6. multiple subreddits can be combined with +
7. change username to your Account's name
8. change appname in app.yaml to the name of your app on appengine

Originally forked from chrishan's twitter-bot-gae