Shakestweete

Shakestweete generates Shakespearean plays from semi-random tweets from Twitter.

Written for the 2013 NaNoGenMo.

Installation

You need Node.js and npm. Download/clone the project and command npm install in the project root to install dependencies.

Setup

You need to create and register a Twitter application at http://dev.twitter.com. (It's silly, but Twitter requires authentication even if you're only reading public tweets.)

Once you have the application registered and you have generated the access tokens, create a credentials.json file that has this content:

{
    "consumer_key":         "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY",
    "consumer_secret":      "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET",
    "access_token":         "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
    "access_token_secret":  "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
}

The same content is in the file credentials.example.json which you can edit and rename to credentials.json.

Usage

Command node shakestweete.js to run the generator.

Status

It's a bit buggy and there's maybe 50/50 chance of it managing to generate a 50,000 word output per run. It's unlikely that I'll ever fix it, but feel free to fork and modify to heart's content.