OhadRubin / nlproc-twitter

NLProc Twitter

A bunch of small scripts to:

• Find authors on Twitter which you cite in your work.
• Find people on Twitter which tweet about things that you're interested in.
• Unfollow inactive people.

Usage

Prerequisites:

1. Follow @zouharvi on Twitter.
2. Install pip3 install -r requirement.txt
3. Fill src/keys_mock.py with your credentials and rename it to src/keys.py .

Usage (Find Authors)

Run src/find_authors.py -b path_to_bibfile.bib to get a list of links to cited authors which you do not yet follow. This works also with src/find_authors.py -a arxiv_link and src/find_authors.py -s semanticscholar_link .

Usage (Find People)

Run src/find_people.py -q "NLProc" to find people who have NLProc in their bio. The program will automatically open the Twitter profile page¹ of the first 10 hits and then asks you again if you'd like to continue.²

• ¹ I'm using Firefox in Flatpak. You may need to change the call (in src/main.py) to fit your setup.
• ² The way I use it is to further check whether I want to follow someone in the browser and then go back to the script for another batch of 10 profiles.

Misc.

• Why are Twitter credentials necessary? To access the API and also filter out profiles which you already follow.
• How do you get Twitter credentials? This requires some reading.