BotStarter

A starter project to help you quickly get started with building your own twitter bot. Built as part of a talk for GDG Devfest Caribbean 2021. See the full talk here: Build your bot

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Uses Twitter API v2

Usage/Examples

You first need to create a Twitter developer account. Since the launch of Twitter API v2 you can get access quicker than before by using the Essential tier.

You will then need to create a .env.local file Define your Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token Key and Access Token Secret

You can get these after you create a project under Projects & Apps in the Twitter developer platform.

Verify that in Settings, App permissions are set to Read and Write.

To test your bot locally, run the following command.

npm run start-dev

After fleshing out the logic of your bot, deploy to your favourite provider!

Tech Stack

Server: Node, Express

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