Twitter Bot

Overview

This bot was originally made to run on a RaspberryPi, without any user interaction, you just start it and it should automatically follow and unfollow X number of users per day.

It works using the twitter api and the module tweepy.

Every day at 00:00AM it should save all the important stats of your twitter account to the file at files/stats.txt with the following format:

time:statuses_count:friends_count:followers_count:favourites_count

Time is in Milliseconds format, if you want to now the date you can use http://currentmillis.com/.

Requirements

You need to have installed 2 Python modules, tweepy and termcolor. To install those, use the following commands (for python 3+ use pip3 instead of pip):

pip install tweepy 
pip install termcolor

You will also need to have the file structure has I have it, but you can always change the paths in configuration.py.

files/
	stats.txt				# Stores the stats of your twitter account
	targetUsers.txt			# Stores the users you are going to follow
	followedUsers.txt		# Stores the users that have been followed
	unfollowedUsers.txt		# Stores the users that have been unfollowed		

Use

1. Modify the file configuration.py filling the places where there are some "==================" with your keys and username

    keys = {"API_KEY"				: "=====================",
    		"API_SECRET"			: "=====================",
    		"ACCESS_TOKEN"			: "=====================",
    		"ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"	: "====================="}
    		
    TWITTER_USERNAME 				= "==========="                        
   

2. Open a terminal on your pc and run:

    python main.py -f 1000 -u 1000 -d 2
   

   Where the available parameteres are:

   • -f <follows_per_day> - Number of follows per day
   • -u <unfollows_per_days> - Number of unfollows per day
   • -d <days> - days to wait to unfollow a user

Credits

If you have any problem using it, contact me by twitter @gikdew