Basic TweetBot

A Twitter Bot that can perform the following actions automatically:

• tweet
• retweet
• favourite
• follow
• reply to mentions
• follow back

Setting up the bot

First install the Python requirements

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up a Twitter App (it might take a few days for your developer account to get approved). Once you have an account, add your key, token and secrets to a new file called credentials.py similar to the format of credentials_example.py.

To test the bot, simply run

python tweetbot.py

Keeping the bot running

To keep the bot running even when the computer is switched of, use the nohup command. nohup ignores the hangup (HUP) signal and will print output to a file called nohup.out instead on the terminal.

In the Twitter Bot directory, run the following command

nohup python tweetbot.py &

You should receive output with a number in brackets

Output:
[?] 98695

This is the ID of the process. To stop the process, run

kill 98695

This will stop the Twitter Bot.

If you ever forget the ID of the process, you can retrieve the ID by running the ps command for process status, and the -x flag to include all processes not attached to terminals:

ps -x

To ensure that your bot is running correctly, you check the nohup.out file with a text editor such as nano

nano nohup.out

to check if the program returns the correct output.