twitter-bots

My first project working with tweepy, and was very satisfying! Is very easy to use and the possibilities are huge. Now I understand why 15% of the Twitter users are bots. And I want to be part of this too!

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Installation

• You will need the credentials for authentication on API's Twitter, you can check this to know how to get the credentials.

• If you will only uses the bots locally, just ignore the files Procfile and runtime.txt, they are for deploy on Heroku only.

• But if you want to deploy on Heroku, here is a tutorial for this.

Clone

• Clone this repo to your local machine using https://github.com/willy-r/twitter-bots.git

Setup

• Go to twitter-bots directory:

$ cd twitter-bots

• I highly recommend you to setup a virtual environment first:

$ python3 -m venv env

• With your credentials, you need to configurate this enviroment variables:

$ export ACCESS_TOKEN='your_access_token'
$ export ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET='your_access_token_secret
'
$ export CONSUMER_KEY='your_consumer_key'
$ export CONSUMER_SECRET='your_consumer_secret'

• Now activate the virtual environment and install the dependencies:

$ source env/bin/activate
(env) $ pip install -r requirements.txt

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Usage

Go to bots/ directory and use:

change bot_name.py with the bot name you want. To stop the bot use CTRL + C.

(env) $ python3 bot_name.py

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Current Bots

To add more just follow the code on this bots:

Bot name	Description
bots/fav_mention.py	Automatically favorites a tweet when mentioned.
bots/tweet_pi_time.py	Tweets the pi time of a day.

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Support

Reach out to me at one of the following places!

• Twitter at @lliw_r

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