sltwbot

Primitive, Markov-chain based Twitter Bot.

Takes in some text.

Uses Markov chains to generate sentences from the input text.

This is a fun side project, made for my own learning.

I may or may not maintain it.

Not extensively tested, it's not bullet-proof.

Usage

Generate new tweet from a markov word cache

node tweet.js

Requires twconfig.js with this format:

module.exports = {
  consumer_key:         'your_consumer_key',
  consumer_secret:      'your_consumer_secret',
  access_token:         'your_access_token',
  access_token_secret:  'your_access_token_secret'
};

and markovConfig.js with this format:

module.exports = {
  'wordCachePath':'path_to_persisted_word_cache',
  'tooLongReattempts':5,
  'maxTweetLength':280
};

where the word cache path is the path to a file containing a word cache (see below how to generate one).

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Generate a word cache from a text file, suitable for reuse

node TextToWordCache.js <inputFile> <order>

Where inputFile is the path to a text file, in utf8 format, and order is the markov chain order. Defaults to 1, if omitted.

Output can be redirected to a file:

node TextToWordCache.js testText.txt > testWordCache.json

---

Generate a sentence from a word cache

No tweet, just output a random sentence from a persisted word cache.

node SentenceFromWordCache.js <inputWordCacheFile>

Where inputWordCacheFile is the path to a file containing a word cache.

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Generate a sentence from some text

If you just want to generate a random sentence from some input text and don't want to bother with a word cache, do this.

node SentenceFromText.js <inputFile> <order>

Where inputFile is the path to a text file, in utf8 format, and order is the markov chain order. Defaults to 1, if omitted.