Author: Wilson Giese - giese.wilson@gmail.com
A Twitter bot that will query for specified terms and respond the the tweets using the Twitter REST API.
To run this application several things need to be defined in a config file. Example config.json:
{
"min_time_between_cycles":180000,
"max_time_between_cycles":3000000,
"max_tweets_per_cycle":1,
"consumer_key":"YOUR CONSUMER KEY",
"consumer_secret":"YOUR CONSUMER SECRET",
"access_token":"YOUR ACCESS TOKEN",
"access_token_secret":"YOUR ACCESS TOKEN SECRET",
"queries": ["I like rain", "I like thunder"],
"responses": ["You're welcome.", "I'm glad you like it.",
"Just doing my job, no need to thank me."]
}The above example is a config file for my test bot; The Zeus Bot(OAuth keys excluded).
- min/max_min_time_between_cycles: This variable is the time in milliseconds that the bot will wait to run another cycle. The time is chosen randomly for each cycle.
- max_tweets_per_cycle: This variable is the maximum number of tweets posted per cycle.
- consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, & access_token_secret: These are the OAuth keys used to post to twitter using the REST API. These keys are given by Twitter and should remain a secret. Consumer keys are for the application itself, and access keys are for the twitter account that will post the "tweets".
- queries: An array of strings that will be used to query Twitter.
- responses: An array of string that will be used to respond to matching queries.
java -cp TwitterBot.jar Bot
You can run the program with the normal class files, but you'll need to link all the libraries.
json-simple-1.1.1, signpost-core-1.2.1.2, commons-codec-1.7
This bot was not created as a spam or advertisement bot, just as a way to explore the Twitter, OAuth, and JSON API's. That said, you can use or modify the code as you see fit.