GirlScript Winter of Contributing Twitter Bot
A Twitter Bot that retweets and likes tweets with the hashtag #girlscriptwoc and #girlscript, and also follows the user.
Installation
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Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/thepranaygupta/GWoC-Bot.git -
Install Tweepy – An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API.
$ pip install tweepy
Working
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- Create a new Twitter account for your bot and Sign up for Twitter Developer Account.
- Make sure you fully understand Twitter’s Rules on Automation. Play nice. Don’t spam!
- Click on Create an app. This is where you’ll generate your keys, tokens, and secrets.
- Enter the details and keep safe the access tokens generated.
- Edit the bot.py file accordingly.
Deployment on Heroku
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Follow all the steps as shown in this YouTube Tutorial.
You need to make three different files :
- runtime.txt (Includes Python Version
python-3.8.12) - requirements.txt (
pip freeze > requirements.txt) - Procfile (
worker: python bot.py)
Note: Make sure that your bot.py file and the files generated above are in the same directory.
License
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The GirlScript Winter of Contributing Twitter Bot is released under the under terms of the MIT License.
Contact
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If you are stuck anywhere you can contact me via Twitter or I will be glad to help you.
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Check out my other repositories here.
