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Make sure python is installed correctly - http://docs.python-guide.org
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Clone this repo
git clone https://github.com/impshum/simple-twitter-facts-bot
Or use the download button (your choice).
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Move into the folder
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Build a virtual environment
The scripts are in python 2.7 so...
virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python2.7 venv -
Start said environment
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Install requirements
pip install twython requests bs4 lxml -
Create a twitter account for your project: https://twitter.com
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Create a twitter app for your project and grab your keys: https://apps.twitter.com
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Open up the files in an editor (I use http://atom.io)
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Have a spy around.
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Insert said keys into facts.py
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Open up facts.txt
The facts bot tweets a fact from facts.txt, moves the used line to liners.txt and sleeps for 15 mins then runs again until all lines have been used up. For sanity reasons there's a funtion which removes lines with more than 140 chars as Twatter only allows 140 chars.
To run the script
python bot.py
woo.py is a very simple web scraper that grabs the top trending hashtag from https://ritetag.com/hashtag-search and simply prints it out. Beautiful Soup is fantastic!
Again, to run the script
python woo.py
- To stop the environment
deactivate
I'm sure you can get this running in no time. A raspberry pi comes in handy for running these 24/7.