https://github.com/BillCruise/BountyBot

A Twitter bot that posts interesting bounty questions from Stack Overflow.
https://github.com/BillCruise/BountyBot

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A Twitter bot that posts interesting bounty questions from Stack Overflow.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/BillCruise/BountyBot
• Owner: BillCruise
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-03-02T14:51:54.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-01-31T14:41:44.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T16:43:09.023Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 158 KB
• Stars: 49
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 15
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.txt
  • License: license.txt

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README

        
About:

BountyBot downloads 'featured' (bountied) questions from Stack Overflow, picks 

the most interesting one based on the amount of the bounty and the score of

the question, then posts a link to the question on Twitter.

Example account updated by this script: https://twitter.com/BountyBot

Scheduling needs to be done by an external process like cron or Windows Task Scheduler.

Author: Bill Cruise

(Bill the Lizard on Stack Overflow, @lizardbill on Twitter)

Dependencies: tweepy (https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy)

Stack Exchange API: https://api.stackexchange.com/docs

Twitter API: https://dev.twitter.com/

Configuration:

Configuration is controlled through settings.cfg which must be in the same

directory as bounty_bot.py.  Your Twitter Application ID tokens need to be

stored in this file to give the script permission to post status messages

on your Twitter account.  This section is required, so expect the bounty bot

script to throw errors if you don't include it.  The Stack Exchange OAuth

section is optional, but you may run into API throttling if you try to

run the script too often without it.

http://dev.twitter.com/apps/myappid

http://dev.twitter.com/apps/myappid/my_token

http://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register

Example settings.cfg

--------------------

[Twitter OAuth]

CONSUMER_KEY: Your Consumer Key

CONSUMER_SECRET: Your Consumer Secret

ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY: Your Access Token Key

ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET: Your Access Token Secret

[Stack Exchange OAuth]

KEY: Your Stack Exchange OAuth Key

Logging:

Status messages will be saved in a file named status.log in the same directory with bounty_bot.py.  The target window for bounty expiration, the status message posted to Twitter, and the bounty expiration time are all logged to this file.

Error messages will be saved in error.log.