barelampagos / InspirationBot

A Twitter Bot that posts inspirational quotes.

InspirationBot

A Twitter Bot that posts inspirational quotes. Currently inactive: @inspirationqtz.

quoteGrabberBot.py:

• Uses BeautifulSoup to scrape HTML from goodreads.com
• Parse out 30 quotes per page, for 100 pages (Starting URL)
• Filters out quotations that are not Twitter friendly (> 140 characters)
• Appends quotations to quotes.txt

inspirationBot.py:

• Establishes connection to Twitter API via Tweepy
• Reads in quotes.txt generated by quoteGrabberBot.py
• Generates a tweet (in the format "Quote + Hashtag") and sends tweet to Twitter
• Continues to tweet every 30 minutes until no more tweets available or Keyboard Interrupt
• On Keyboard Interrupt, unused tweets rewritten to quotes.txt

How to Run

1. Replace CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET, ACCESS_KEY, ACCESS_SECRET in inspirationBot.py with your appropriate Twitter API credentials.
2. Run: $ python3 quoteGrabberBot.py
3. Run: $ python3 inspirationBot.py