slashtechno / hello-twitter

hello-twitter is a Python Twitter bot that scans for mentions that contain a specific tag and reply to those Tweets

hello-twitter

A simple Twitter bot made with Python

What it does

1. Looks for tweets that mention a user.
2. Scans through the last 20 mentions for #HelloWorld
3. If the mention contains #TeamSeas, it replies to the mention with the pounds of trash removed by #TeamSeas
4. If the mention contains #HelloWorld, it replies to that tweet with hi

Setup

Twitter developer account setup

For this to work, you need to have a Twitter developer account.

1. To get a developer account, follow this tutorial.
2. After getting a developer account, you need to create a project and an app
3. To generate the keys, go to the app you created and go to Keys and tokens

Program Setup

Install dependencies

May need to use pip3

pip install -r requirements.txt
Create a file in the same folder as hello-twitter.py named .env and configure it as follows, then run the program (or you can use enviroment variables)

CONSUMER_KEY = "Your consumer key"
CONSUMER_SECRET = "Your consumer secret"
ACCESS_KEY = "Your access key"
ACCESS_SECRET = "Your access secret"

If you want to run this as a service edit the configuration of hello-twitter.service to your needs
Then copy to /etc/systemd/system/

Roadmap

• Instead of storing keys in config.py store in JSON enviroment variables and .env
• Allow bot to scrape webpages and answer questions
  For example, getting the amount of pounds of trash removed by #TeamSeas. DONE! (not with webscraping, downloading json instead)
• Have a help command

One more thing

If you find any bugs, please create a Github issue to report the bug so it can be fixed.