A Twitter bot that loves films big time but doesn't have a very good memory :(
Watch it in action here: https://twitter.com/omg_movies
The data folder of the bot contains a list of Internet Movie Database movie ids. When a new tweet is requested, a random id is picked and used to obtain a hash with all the movie metadata using OMDB.
The bot then picks a word from the movie title and tries to find a word that rhymes or belongs to the same semantic context using the Wordnick API. If a rhyme is found, it's then used to replaced the original word in the title. The bot applies the same kind of substitution with the last name of the main actor/actress.
Finally, the bot picks a random template from movie_templates, replaces the special tokens (TITLE, ACTOR, GENRE, DIRECTOR), and publishes the tweet.
- Remix the project on Glitch
- Edit the
key.envfile with:
- A random
SECRETstring to update the bot and publish a new tweet. - A wordnick API key.
- An OMDB API key.
- Your Twitter app credentials.
Once that is ready visit YOUR_GLITCH_URL.com/SECRET to generate and publish a new Tweet.
Bonus points: use cron-job.org to ping the secret URL every X minutes.
