MarkovTweeter

A generic library that generates tweets using Markov Chains based on an existing twitter feed. I've personally set this up as a cron job.

There are three public functions in the script that you can trigger:

• the keyword read will collect up to 200 tweets from any public Twitter account.
• the keyword send will send a generated tweet.
• the keyword test will verify that the setup criteria are met, both Twitter auth and Markov chain-based generation.

Installation instructions

This tool requires npm and node to be installed.

1. Install the Twit library: npm install twit
2. Rita is required for out of the box markov chain generation: npm install rita

Read tweets

index.js read [username] [file for storing tweets found, one per line] [start_number] [consumer_key] [consumer_secret] [access_token] [access_token_secret] This function will output the highest id found to STDOUT.

Send a generated tweet

This function generates a random sentence and tweets this on the given account:

index.js send [username] [file containing inputtext, per line] [consumer_key] [consumer_secret] [access_token] [access_token_secret]

For example:

index.js send mytwitterusername tweets2.txt 7En8ef89FEFE3Un6fe7ufenfi iuqGWK2Jfo5Eij7Emo8w8gpqw8e56o85g68G45f7ew7GEGEgWE 2893590259025903902-U234235I235Fe6wu6i6uhfuho2352A koE15EpqwAAdpoqdGEok6qg6434634ewSSQmkl6opwEEHE4636

Test for valid output

This function outputs a sample sentence and performs twitter verification. It is designed as a verification of your setup.

index.js test [username] [file containing inputtext, per line] [consumer_key] [consumer_secret] [access_token] [access_token_secret]

For example

index.js test mytwitterusername tweets2.txt 7En8ef89FEFE3Un6fe7ufenfi iuqGWK2Jfo5Eij7Emo8w8gpqw8e56o85g68G45f7ew7GEGEgWE 2893590259025903902-U234235I235Fe6wu6i6uhfuho2352A koE15EpqwAAdpoqdGEok6qg6434634ewSSQmkl6opwEEHE4636