dnlcrl / spaceb07

:rocket: Space addicted twitter bot: http://twitter.com/spaceb07, running on heroku

spaceb07

🚀 Space addicted twitter bot: http://twitter.com/spaceb07, running on Heroku.

• Tweets a random GIF tagged "space" from Giphy.com (one every 24 hours).
• Retweets image pictures from astronauts curently in space (one every 30 minutes, 2 hours between retweets from the same user. Check http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/ for a list of curently in space astronauts). Currently retweeting:
  • Jeff Williams: https://twitter.com/Astro_Jeff
  • Tim Peake: https://twitter.com/astro_timpeake
  • Colonel Tim Kopra: https://twitter.com/astro_tim

Create Your Own Twitter Bot:

1. Create your twitter account and setup an app for that account on the twitter's developers page, so you can have all the needed security tokens.
2. Run setup/init.sh and follow the instructions to create an Heroku app for your bot.
3. Run setup/init_dropbox.sh and follow the instructions to link the Heroku app to your dropbox.
4. Edit the files to customize your bot to make it awesome.
5. Push edits on heroku with git push heroku master.
6. Enjoy.