twitter_ebooks

Multi-user twitter ebooks bot

Based very heavily on:

• https://github.com/mispy/twitter_ebooks
• https://github.com/mispy/ebooks_example
• http://blog.boodoo.co/how-to-make-an-_ebooks/
• http://blog.boodoo.co/how-to-deploy-an-_ebooks-bot/

Basic instructions (this needs some major improvement)

• Register a new app at twitter; request R/W/DM priviledges
• Register one or more user names for your bot(s)
• Copy .env.sample to .env
• Set EBOOKS_CONSUMER_KEY & EBOOKS_CONSUMER_SECRET for your app
• Authorize each user using twurl: twurl authorize --consumer-key <your_consumer_key> --consumer-secret <your_consumer_secret> -u <user_1> -p <user_1_password>
• Copy 'token' and 'secret' from ~/.twurlrc to .env (as EBOOKS_OAUTH_TOKEN_* and EBOOKS_OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET_*)
• gem install ebooks
• update the rest of the fields in .env
• ebooks archive <user_to_learn_from> corpus/<botname>.json
• ebooks consume $( [ -f corpus/<botname>.csv ] && echo corpus/<botname>.csv) corpus/<botname>.json
• ./start.sh

Deploying to heroku:

• heroku config:push to copy .env to heroku

The default bot respond to the following commands

• talk / tweet / say something
• follow @foo
• favorite 1231434124 / favorite https://twitter.com/foo/status/241453412313
• reply to 3132131231 / respond to 1253252432