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="<KEY>"
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET="<KEY>"
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN="<KEY>"
export TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="<KEY>"
Note: keys.sh is already in .gitignore