https://github.com/lurst/mylittlebotie

:robot:The simplest possible twitter bot
https://github.com/lurst/mylittlebotie

bot microcode python twitter

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:robot:The simplest possible twitter bot

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lurst/mylittlebotie
• Owner: LuRsT
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-07-11T13:46:50.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-03-04T15:33:35.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T11:41:26.012Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: bot, microcode, python, twitter
• Language: Python
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• Size: 5.86 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# mylittlebotie

The simplest possible twitter bot.

It twittes a random Wikipedia page every time you run the script.

Example of this script in use: https://twitter.com/mylittlebotie

## How to use?

- Create a twitter account

- Add an app

- Add access token to app

- Fill in necessary environment variables:

    - TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY

    - TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET

    - TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN

    - TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

- Create a virtual environment (Optional)

- Install requirements

    - `pip install -r requirements.txt`

- Run it: `python main.py`

- Check twitter account

## How to make it bot-like

Add this line to your crontab:

    0 * * * * python main.py

Note: You need to pass the env vars somehow to the environment runing the

script.

## Known issues

- The client raises an exception if we send the same status update, which with

the current implementation will happen very quickly.

## Tips and tricks

To easily run the script without having to set the twitter keys all the time,

you can create a `keys.sh` file which will store them (this is NOT safe!) and

then you run `source keys.sh` and now you can run `python main.py` without an

issue.

Example `keys.sh` file:

    export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=""

    export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=""

    export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=""

    export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=""

Note: `keys.sh` is already in `.gitignore`