https://github.com/jmousqueton/cyber-news-bot

A bot to retweet everything related to Cyber Security based on hashtag
https://github.com/jmousqueton/cyber-news-bot

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A bot to retweet everything related to Cyber Security based on hashtag

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jmousqueton/cyber-news-bot
• Owner: JMousqueton
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2021-12-18T15:41:09.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-25T17:58:57.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-12-18T00:14:26.070Z (11 months ago)
• Topics: apiv2, bot, cybersecurity, twitter, twitter-bot
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://twitter.com/Bot_CyberNews
• Size: 59.6 KB
• Stars: 7
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# 🏴‍☠️ Cyber-News Bot 🤖 for Twitter 🐦

***

[![made-with-python](https://img.shields.io/badge/Made%20with-Python-1f425f.svg)](https://www.python.org/)

 ![Version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-1.0-blue.svg?cacheSeconds=2592000)

 [![License: Apache 2.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache%202.0-yellow.svg)](https://github.com/JMousqueton/Badware/blob/main/LICENSE)

 [![Twitter: JMousqueton](https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/JMousqueton.svg?style=social)](https://twitter.com/JMousqueton)

[![Twitter: Bot_CyberNews](https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/Bot_CyberNews.svg?style=social)](https://twitter.com/Bot_CyberNews)

Based on an idea by [Cybersec-Twitter-BOT](https://github.com/0z09e/Cybersec-Twitter-BOT) this BOT written in Python3 retweets every tweets related to cybersecurity based on hashtags. 

## Future 

Check the [TODO.md](https://github.com/JMousqueton/Cyber-News-Bot/blob/main/TODO.md) file 

## Installation

Install all the modules in ```requirement.txt```

```

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

```

## Configuration

1. Go to [Twitter Developer Platform](https://developer.twitter.com/) and create a new app.  

2. rename config.cfg.sample to config.cfg

3. Now just take those keys and slap them on config.cfg, Following keys are required.

- API_key

- API_key_secret

- Access_token

- Access_token_secret

- Bearer_token

4. Now replace hashtags with whatever query you want.

⚠️ For troubleshooting you can set the DEBUG variable to True

## Usage

Execute main.py using python3

```

python3 main.py

```

You can execute this script hourly with the crontab 

For example if the script is in the folder /opt/bot : 

```

5 * * * *  cd /opt/bot && python3 main.py

```

See [Crontab Guru](https://crontab.guru/) for more details about crontab syntax 

## Demo 

My bot is publishing the tweets [here](https://twitter.com/Bot_CyberNews) 

## Author

👤 **Julien Mousqueton**

* Website: 

* Twitter: [@JMousqueton](https://twitter.com/JMousqueton)

* Github: [@JMousqueton](https://github.com/JMousqueton)

* LinkedIn: [Julien Mousqueton](https://linkedin.com/in/julienmousqueton)

## 🤝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!

Feel free to check [issues page](https://github.com/JMousqueton/Cyber-News-Bot/issues).

## 📝 License

Copyright © 2021 [Julien Mousqueton](https://github.com/JMousqueton).

This project is [Apache 2.0](https://github.com/JMousqueton/Cyber-News-Bot/blob/main/LICENSE) licensed.

## Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if this project helped you!