jarnix / contestator

Automatic RT + follow for playing Twitter contests

Requirements

• requires go 1.1+
• runs on Windows, and Linux, maybe on OS X

First steps

.env

Create file called .env that will contain the credentials (not to be commited), modify the example .env.example and rename it to .env

Available actions

todo	action
downloadformarkov	Launch the indexing of some articles for generating random shit with markov chains
tweetmarkov	Tweet some markov generated text
downloadforretweet	Launch the indexing of some tweets for retweeting
tweetretweet	Retweet the previously downloaded tweets
tweetemojis	Tweet a few emojis
contestplay	Search for contests and plays

Use realize to develop or just go build

go get github.com/oxequa/realize

Cronify/log all the things

/etc/logrotate.d/contestator

/var/www/logs/contestator.log {
        daily
        missingok
        rotate 14
        compress
        delaycompress
        notifempty
        create 640 www-data www-data
        sharedscripts
}

/etc/cron.d/contestator

5 5 * * *   www-data /var/www/contestator/contestator --todo downloadformarkov	 >> /var/www/logs/contestator.log 2>&1
10 6 * * *  www-data /var/www/contestator/contestator --todo downloadforretweet  >> /var/www/logs/contestator.log 2>&1
10 6 * * *  www-data /var/www/contestator/contestator --todo tweetretweet        >> /var/www/logs/contestator.log 2>&1
0 9 * * *   www-data /var/www/contestator/contestator --todo tweetmarkov         >> /var/www/logs/contestator.log 2>&1
30 13 * * * www-data /var/www/contestator/contestator --todo tweetemojis         >> /var/www/logs/contestator.log 2>&1
0 10 * * *  www-data /var/www/contestator/contestator --todo contestplay         >> /var/www/logs/contestator.log 2>&1