https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/twitter-greet-followers-bot

A simple twitter bot to send your new followers a nice greeting message.
https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/twitter-greet-followers-bot

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A simple twitter bot to send your new followers a nice greeting message.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/twitter-greet-followers-bot
• Owner: justadudewhohacks
• Created: 2018-02-04T15:25:55.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-02-05T14:29:29.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-30T03:40:22.514Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: followers, javascript, twitter, twitter-api, twitter-bot, twitter-streaming-api
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 8.79 KB
• Stars: 26
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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*A simple twitter bot to send your new followers a nice greeting message.*

![demo](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31125521/35782557-f3dbd004-09f9-11e8-9fab-eaab504a7a1a.gif)

## Requirements

### Credentials for the twitter api

Create a  twitter app  for your twitter account and switch to the tab *Keys and Access Tokens*. If you do not have an access token yet click *Create my access token*. Now you should have all your credentials:

![twitter-credentials](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31125521/35782141-f738728a-09f3-11e8-804c-00c8dec197c3.png)

### Heroku account

If you do not have a heroku account, set one up and install the  heroku cli .

## Set up your bot

1. Clone the repository:

``` bash

git clone https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/twitter-greet-followers-bot

cd twitter-greet-followers-bot

```

2. Create a heroku app:

``` bash

heroku app:create mytwitterbot1234

```

3. Set your twitter-api credentials as environment variables:

``` bash

heroku config:set consumer_key=xxx

heroku config:set consumer_secret=xxx

heroku config:set access_token=xxx

heroku config:set access_token_secret=xxx

```

4. Edit greeting.js and insert your greeting message

![greeting](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31125521/35782464-d2199f42-09f8-11e8-9966-f2db92ad423d.png)

5. Commit the changes and push to heroku

``` bash

git add .

git commit -m "changed the greeting message"

git push heroku master

```

6. Stop the web dyno (default) and start your app in a worker dyno:

``` bash

heroku ps:scale web=0 worker=1

```

7. Testing your bot:

If everything worked your bot should be running. You can test your bot by following: justapoliteguy, who will follow you back. Check if your greeting message was sent. You can retry as many times as you wish by unfollowing and following again.

## Trouble Shooting

In case your bot does not seem to work, you can open the heroku dashboard of your app and navigate to *View logs* by clicking the *More* button in the upper right corner:

![heroku-log](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/31125521/35809370-a91d817c-0a88-11e8-9fef-312f1c648611.png)

If you see the output *credentials ok — running bot*, the bot should be up watching for new followers. As the log only displays a few lines, you can also dump the log to a text file:

``` bash

heroku logs -a mytwitterbot1234 >> logs.txt

```

Another thing you might want to check is, whether your credentials are set up correctly. Navigate to the *Settings* tab and click *Reveal Config Vars*. Check and edit your credentials here.