Retweet bot

Code behind @labib_likes, a twitter bot that retweets my main's @aka_labib twitter account likes

Setup

1. Fork the repository.
2. Pull it to your desktop.
3. Create a .env file which contain only the following

  export API_KEY='Your API Key'
  export API_SECRET='Your API Secret'
  export ACCESS_TOKEN='Your Access Token'
  export ACCESS_SECRET='Your Access Secret'

4. Create a .gitignore file which contain only .env on one line. so that your keys stay safe.
5. Decide who you want to retweet and edit it in instead of 'aka_labib' in retweet_bot.py
6. Download pyenv to setup developer environment for python with adequate dependeancies.

pyenv install 3.11.1 
# can try other python versions if you are looking here too far in the future. 
# pyenv does lose support sometimes for some versions as they get old

#make sure you are inside at root of this repository in your local before running next line
pyenv shell 3.11.1
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python retweet_bot.py 
# Your bot account now should have retweeted the given username's likes

deactivate # to exit environment

Re-running the bot

#if you want to repeat for retweeting new likes you run: 
source venv/bin/activate
python retweet_bot.py 
deactivate # to exit environment

Extra step

You can have the bot deployed on aws or render if you want it to periodically run using cronjobs. I am running it on my machine using crontab. Fairly easy.

Happy Coding <3