Automate replies to Tweets for the authorized user
NOTE: You will need to create a Twitter Developer account and create an API Key/Secret in order to use this software.
This is a modular Twitter reply bot written in Swift.
At a high-level, that means you create Modules consisting of a single function that return an output string for some input Tweet:
func output(for reply: Reply, _ completion: @escaping ((String) -> Void))
The Bot calls its module's output method anytime it detects a new Tweet and automatically posts a reply (from the bot) with the string it received.
This project was motivated by a contest I've been running on Twitter called Codebreaker:
https://github.com/JUSTINMKAUFMAN/TwitterCodebreaker
The idea is to have a bot monitor a Tweet (or an account more generally) and process all replies into a coded response from the bot. Users then compete to be first to figure out the bot's encryption algorithm.
The modules I have included in this app as examples are from the first two rounds of that contest.
Option 1: Clone this repository and build the app with Xcode 11.3. Option 2: Download the latest built binary from releases, unzip, and run.
- Run the app and enter your Twitter API Key/Secret in the input fields at the bottom of the window
- Click
Update - Send a tweet to the bot and watch it reply!
- Add your own
Module(change modules by updating the definition inConstants.swift)
In order to authorize and communicate with the Twitter API, this app copies and modifies source from the excellent Swifter library by Matt Donnelly.
In the future - and assuming there is interest in this project - I will probably try to fork the Swifter library properly; this was just easier when I wasn't sure where the project was going.