Eden

A Slack chatbot for quickly following and unfollowing people on Twitter.

Eden will either post new tweets to a DM between your and eden or to any channel (depending on where you are when you ask eden to follow someone). If eden's not currently in a channel, just invite her @eden.

Setup

Make sure you have the following environment variables set:

export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
export TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET=YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET

export SLACK_API_TOKEN=YOUR_SLACK_TOKEN

Running

Locally

mix deps.get
iex -S mix

Deploy

I'm running eden on a Digital Ocean server using exrm and conform. With the code on your server, you'll want to run:

# Install dependencies and compile
MIX_ENV=prod mix do deps.get, compile

# Setting up environment; make sure environment vars are in place
MIX_ENV=prod mix conform.new
MIX_ENV=prod mix conform.configure

# Building release
MIX_ENV=prod mix release --no-confirm-missing # Ignore neotama warning

On subsequent deploys, I'm using this post-receive script, which you may or may not want to customize to your needs.

Once your release is built, start eden by running:

/build/rel/eden/bin/eden start # assuming your exrm build folder is at /build

Usage

Assuming you've set up a Slack bot (which you should have done, since you had to set up an API token above), and that bot's name is eden, you should be able to open your Slack channel and type commands like:

Follow a user eden follow adampash

See a list of who you're following eden following

Unfollow a user eden unfollow adampash