It uses the CoinMarketCap API to get the latest prices for the top 10 coins. It uses the CryptoPanic API to get the latest crypto related news. It uses the Twitter API to post, find, and retweet tweets.
Upon running the bot, it will run tweetLatestPrices() which is the function that tweets the latest prices. Then, I am using the setInterval() Javascript function to have the bot tweet the latest prices every hour. I am calling the tweetLatestCryptoNews() function every 29 minutes to update users with the latest news. Lastly, I am running the retweetMostRecentTweets() function every 3.9 hours to search for and tweet the two most recent relating to crypto. I am setting different intervals so that the bot does not tweet two tweets at the same time. Twitter is pretty good for preventing duplicate tweets though. I can also manipulate the params object to search for different things. For example,
var params = {
q: '#crypto',
count: 2,
result_type: 'recent',
lang: 'en'
}
Here I can change q: to any hashtag or word that I want to look for. count is the number of tweets I want to look for. I can set result_type to recent or popular to search for the most recent or popular tweets.
These are screen shots of the bot tweeting on its own every so often depending on the time interval that I set or the functions that I run independently.
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You can see my Twitter Bot at work here.