Custom Features

The following changes are not necessary to make, but can help you customize the bot to your preferences.

Making the source code and Tweets your own

There are a number of references within the source code that are specific to XKCDAltTextBot. You can change these to apply to your scenario, but you must be consistent with the changes. This includes any mention of a term as part of a variable. For example, if app becomes newapp, then app_payload becomes newapp_payload.

These are the changes to make:

Description of element to change	Original Reference	New Reference
Target account short reference	comic	target
Target account handle	xkcdComic	targetacc
Your account short reference	alt	bot
Your account handle	XKCDAltTextBot	botacc

You can also make custom changes to the logs on lines 176, 180, 184, 192, and 229. You can modify the standard prefix and suffix of the Tweets on line 196.

Next Steps

Your bot is now ready to run! In the next section, you'll learn how to launch your bot on a platform.

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