https://github.com/robbiebarrat/twitter-contest-enterer

Twitter bot that mass-enters contests on twitters, and (mostly) avoids bot-detection accounts.
https://github.com/robbiebarrat/twitter-contest-enterer

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Twitter bot that mass-enters contests on twitters, and (mostly) avoids bot-detection accounts.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/robbiebarrat/twitter-contest-enterer
• Owner: robbiebarrat
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-08-13T00:55:39.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-19T02:26:11.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-29T16:51:15.520Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage:
• Size: 37.1 KB
• Stars: 134
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 23
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# twitter-contest-enterer

Have you ever seen a tweet that looks like this?

![alt tag](http://i.imgur.com/LDkU6hC.png)

Chances are you have. This program (written entirely in python) finds and retweets these types of tweets. It also automatically favorites the tweet if the word "favorite"/"fav" is in it, and/or it will follow the user if the word "follow" is in the tweet.

# Screenshots

Here it is running. As you can see it found the word "follow" in a few tweets so it followed the user too.

Maybe it's just me but I think that's pretty cool.

![alt tag](http://i.imgur.com/Ss5EZ5M.png)

Here is a picture of something it retweeted. It also followed this account (you don't see that though).

![alt tag](http://i.imgur.com/F2DodMy.png)

# Modules and code

It's compatible with all versions of Python, and the only modules it requires are 'time' (built-in) and tweepy.

You can install Tweepy with

    pip install tweepy

The github repo for it is [here](https://github.com/tweepy/tweepy).

Also -- you can get all the keys/tokens if you follow [this](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-authenticate-a-python-application-with-twitter-using-tweepy-on-ubuntu-14-04) guide.

 

# Progress

I just looked at the last 20 things it has retweeted, and it retweeted 18 'good' tweets, and only 2 'bad' ones. A 'good' tweet is one that is a "Retweet for a chance to win"-type tweet, while a 'bad' tweet is a tweet that isn't a contest. I'd say that 90% valid retweets is pretty great.

You can check this for yourself; check out [@beefbot9000](https://twitter.com/beefbot9000)

# Terms of use

Feel free to do whatever with it, but if you get in trouble with Twitter you'd better not get me in trouble too.