Twitter-Bots

A repo for python twitter bots - let's automate things

Getting Started

First you will need to create a twitter developer account to be able to access the Twitter API: https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access

Next you will need to set environment variables, in linux:

export CONSUMER_KEY="your_consumer_key"
export CONSUMER_SECRET="your_consumer_secret"
export ACCESS_TOKEN="your_access_token"
export ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET="your_access_token_secret" 

Now you should be able to run any of the above using for example:

python3 followBot.py

What bots are included?

drawReplyUserBot.py

A Twitter bot which draws and tweets any user's profile picture after they have replied with a tweet containing the string "draw me" in it. Makes use of drawImage.py in the resources directory

drawBot

A bot that will create and tweet a hand drawn image of your own profile picture.

motivationBot

A bot to tweet the day of the week using the time module, a given quote and the gif thankYou.gif located in the resources directory.

dailyBot

A bot to favourite all tweets, retweet half and follow some tweets/users based on a given filter ("#100DaysOfCode" by default).

followBot

A twitter bot which follows everyone who follows me who I don't currently follow.

favRetweetBot

A twitter bot to favourite and retweet all tweets based on a given filter.

autoreplyBot

A twitter bot to auto replys to mentions like an answer machine.

config.py

Contains config to connect to the Twitter API, gets values from Environment Variables.

Built with

• Tweepy - An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to the #100DaysOfCode Twitter community for encouraging me to code for fun!!

This was my starting point and will help anyone get started with Python Twitter bots: https://realpython.com/twitter-bot-python-tweepy/