A simple twitter bot

This is a quite simple twitter bot that check for mentions every 60s and reply it with a phrase randomly picked up from a database of quotes.

We're using Tweepy library for accessing the Twitter API.

Here is an article from Real Python website How to Make a Twitter Bot in Python With Tweepy we used as reference. You will learn how to generate the credentials needed to manipulate your bot and another stuffs. Please check it out.

Installation and usage

Install the virtual environment
python -m venv venv

Activate the virtual environment
. venv/bin/activate

Install the requirements
pip install -r requirements

Instatiate a database (we're using sqlite3)
python bot/db_instatiate.py

At this point we will have a quotes.db file created. So:

Populate the database from a txt file with a quote per line
python bot/db_populate.py

Twitter credentials

We put the credentials received from Twitter in a json file called credentials.json. The file content looks like you see below:

{
    "consumer_key": "xpto_consumer_key",
    "consumer_secret": "xpto_consumer_secret",
    "access_token": "xpto_access_token",
    "access_token_secret": "xpto_access_token_secret"
}

With both essential files created, the database and the credentials file, we can finally run our application:
python bot/bot.py