piha

A twitter bot that automatically tweets a rant.

What's with the name?

Named after the screaming bird piha, it represents the bot's action - ranting/screaming. 😜

I wanted to practice my recently acquired Golang skills.
My internet service provider was extremely terrible at addressing requests. Tired of following up with them, I wrote this bot to do that for me repeatedly and automatically until my issues are resolved.
We all need a twitter bot at some point in our life! 😉

You will need a twitter developer account. Follow the instructions here to set up a new twitter bot app and gather the following secrets:
- TWITTER_API_KEY
- TWITTER_API_KEY_SECRET
- TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN
- TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
edit config.env file and setup the below configurations
- RANT_USER - the twitter handle of the service provider
- RANT_DATE - the date in YYYY-MM-DD format when your issue with the service provider occurred
- RANT_TEMPLATE - the rant tweet template. DO NOT change the text inside {{}} including the braces.

The project utilizes GitHub Actions to automatically run piha daily at 10 AM IST.

Fork this repo
Click on Settings tab and then on Secrets option
Add each of the secrets gathered from prerequisite step 1
Optionally edit .github\workflows\run-piha.yml and change on.cron.schedule property to run the tool at your desired time
To stop piha, move run-piha.yml file out of the workflows directory

Peace ✌