htmlcoin-tip-bot-twitter is an open-source node.js twitter bot for tipping with Htmlcoin.

It is forked off uneks IRC node-tip-bot (https://github.com/unek/node-tip-bot) It uses node-htmlcoin for integration with Htmlcoin's JSON RPC API.

Installation

To install node-tip-bot simply clone this repo and install dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/denuoweb/htmlcoin-tip-bot-twitter
cd htmlcoin-tip-bot-twitter
npm install

After installation proceed to the configuration.

Configuration

To configure, copy the config/config.sample.yml file to config/config.yml.

twitter

Create an application at dev.twitter.com and fill in your keys.

• **consumer_key: ''
• **consumer_secret: ''
• **access_token_key: ''
• **access_token_secret: ''

log

Logging settings.

• file - file to log to. Set to false to disable logging to file.

rpc

JSON RPC API connection info.

• host - JSON RPC API hostname
• port - API port
• user - API username
• pass - API password (keep that secure)

coin

Basic coin settings.

• withdrawal_fee - fee charged on withdraw to cover up txfee, the rest goes to bot's wallet.
• min_withdraw - minimum amount of coins to withdraw
• min_confirmations - minimum amount of confirmations needed to tip/withdraw coins
• min_tip - minimum amount of coins to tip
• short_name - short coin's name (eg. HTML)
• full_name - full coin's name (eg. htmlcoin)

How to run it?

Before running the bot, you have to be running your coin daemon with JSON-RPC API enabled. To enable, add this to your coin daemon configuration file (eg. ~/.htmlcoin/htmlcoin.conf):

server=1
daemon=1
rpcuser=<your username>
rpcpassword=<your super secret password>
rpcallowip=<your bot's ip address or just 127.0.0.1 if hosted on the same machine>

To run the bot simply use node bin/tipbot or npm start.

Commands

Commands are executed by placing denarii in a tweet.

Command	Arguments	Description
balance		displays your current wallet balance
address		displays address where you can send your funds to the tip bot
withdraw	<address>	withdraws your whole wallet balance to specified address
tip	<nick> <amount>	sends the specified amount of coins to the specified nickname
help		displays configured help message (by default similiar to this one)
terms		displays terms and conditions for using the tip bot