Twitter_Bot

This is a twitter bot made with Ruby for the Microverse Capstone project of the Ruby module. This bot parses information from a rss page which is a converted version of a personal Instagram page and tweets them every twelve hours.

Instructions

This bot has one functionality:POST_TWEETS

• POST_TWEETS

• The bot gets some parts from a RSS (Conversion of a personal instagram page into a RSS page), and tweets them once every twelve hours

Built With

• Ruby

For running the bot locally, you need to switch to ruby -v 2.7.2 if you use another version of ruby such as ruby -v 3.0.0 .

Prerequisties

• Ruby
• Twitter gem
• Dotenv gem
• HTTParty gem
• RSS gem

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps in your terminal.

• https://github.com/necmigunduz/twitter_bot
• cd twitter_bot
• ruby bin/update.rb

Following these steps, create an .env file in the root folder and place keys and tokens for Twitter as follows:

consumer_key = 'Enter your consumer_key here' consumer_secret = 'Enter your consumer_secret here' access_token = ''Enter your access_token here'' access_token_secret = ''Enter your access_token_secret here''

For tweeting your posts in your personal Instagram account, your need to replace the url in the tweet method with your rss page url in the ins_taweet.rb in lib. To convert your Instagram page into a rss page, you can use rss.app service or another rss conversion service.

Testing

To test you have to install the RSpec gem and run this command from the root folder:

• rspec

For running the test, enter the name of the test in test_name area, and run the code below:

-rspec spec/test_name

While testing the methods of InsTaweet class, you need to delete private above access method.

Author

👤 Necmi Gunduz

• GitHub: @necmigunduz
• Twitter: @necm_gun
• LinkedIn: LinkedIn

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📝 License

Copyright 2021 Necmi Gunduz

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