https://github.com/alkesst/pytwebot
A short twitter bot made with Python
https://github.com/alkesst/pytwebot
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A short twitter bot made with Python
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/alkesst/pytwebot
- Owner: Alkesst
- Created: 2017-08-09T15:45:39.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2017-10-15T18:31:50.000Z (over 8 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-31T04:10:54.326Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: bot, python, raspberry-pi, rpi, tweepy, twitter
- Language: Python
- Size: 636 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# PyTwe-Bot
###### A Twitter bot.
## INTRODUCTION:
Currently the bot is hosted in a Raspberry Pi 3 model b with Ubuntu 16.04.3.
Made with Tweepy 3.5.0 (http://tweepy.readthedocs.io/en/v3.5.0/index.html) and Python 2.7
Class PyTweListener: This method will stop the stream if you exceed the allowed number of connections to the twitter API.
The BotListener is just a class that extends from tweepy.StreamListener. The method on_status filter the tweets and checks whether it can do something with that tweet, for example, fav it or reply to it with an image. The methon on_error just ends the stream if the stream raises the error 420.
```python
def on_error(self, status_code):
if status_code == 420:
return False
```
In the class TwitterMethods you can find some algorithms that you can use with your authenticated twitter account.
The script tweet_current_status.py is necessary to be run it in a Raspberry Pi. The script take some info from the current status of the Rpi and tweets it to the world.
The first command executes the program /opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd with the measure_temp argument, and the output it's saved in current_temp, same with current_mem. This is useful information of the RPi's status.
```python
current_temp = subprocess.check_output(["/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd", "measure_temp"])
current_mem = subprocess.check_output(["free", "-h"])
````
The special_actions.py is a class that makes special things with some python libraries. Currently just creates an image with a given text. If you want to use that class you'll need python-wand, that requieres imagemagick 6.
```sh
sudo apt-get install python-wand
```
Ubuntu 16.04.3 has already installed imagemagick 6.
## AUTOMATE THE BOT
### Script
For initializing the bot when the rpi powers on you can use a service that executes a bash script like this:
```sh
cd /home/user_name/PyTwe-Bot
STATE=$(ping -q -w 1 -c 1 `ip r | grep default | cut -d ' ' -f 3` > /dev/null && echo ok || echo error)
while [ $STATE == "error" ]; do
#do a ping and check that its not a default message or change to grep for something else
STATE=$(ping -q -w 1 -c 1 `ip r | grep default | cut -d ' ' -f 3` > /dev/null && echo ok || echo error)
#sleep for 2 seconds and try again
sleep 2
done
echo "Pulling PyTwe-Bot..."
echo
git pull
echo
echo "Pull done..."
echo "Initializating PyTwe-Bot..."
echo nope | python stream_bot.py
```
This check if there's internet connection, if not, wait 2 secs and retry a ping. I made this because, when the service
powers on, executes the script and raises an error from the python code informing that there's no internet connection.
```sh
STATE=$(ping -q -w 1 -c 1 `ip r | grep default | cut -d ' ' -f 3` > /dev/null && echo ok || echo error)
while [ $STATE == "error" ]; do
#do a ping and check that its not a default message or change to grep for something else
STATE=$(ping -q -w 1 -c 1 `ip r | grep default | cut -d ' ' -f 3` > /dev/null && echo ok || echo error)
#sleep for 2 seconds and try again
sleep 2
done
```
When the script is executed it checks if there was any change in the code, and starts up the bot with the new changes.
### Service:
Now is needed to make the pytwe.service file:
```
[Unit]
Description=PyTwe-Bot
[Service]
ExecStart=/home/pi/rpi_pytwe_script.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```
Then, is requiered to put this file into /etc/systemd/system/. The user is not allowed to move files into /etc/systemd/system. It's necessary to use this command:
```sh
sudo mv pytwe.service /etc/systemd/system
```
With this you enable the service, and will execute when the rpi powers on:
```sh
sudo systemctl enable pytwe.service
```
Don't forget this:
```sh
chmod a+x rpi_pytwe_script.sh
```
And now the script rpi_pytwe_script.sh will run always that the rpi powers on.