miguelgfierro / twitter_bot

A bot that tweets automatically

A twitter bot that automatically tweets random quotes

Install twitter dependencies:

$ sudo apt-get install libffi-dev libssl-dev
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt

Create a new app to get the credentials at Twitter

Create a JSON file of user data and put into data/botname1:

{
    "consumer_key": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "consumer_secret": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "access_token": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX",
    "access_token_secret": "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
}

Define your bots in bots.conf:

{
  "bot_usernames": [
    "botname1",
    "botname2",
    "botname3"
  ]
}

Add your quotes to data/quotes.json

Cron it. Create a file called crontab.txt and fill it with something like this:

# Run Twitter bots everyday at 13:00
0 13 * * * /bin/bash -c 'cd /path/to/twitter_bot/src && python main.py &>> ../log/cron.log'
# Or every three hours
0 */3 * * *  /bin/bash -c 'cd /path/to/twitter_bot/src && python main.py &>> ../log/cron.log'

Finally to make a cron task:

$ crontab crontab.txt

Disclaimer:

I hold no liability for what you do with this bot or what happens to you by using this bot. Abusing this bot can get you banned from Twitter, so make sure to read up on proper usage of the Twitter API.