TwitterBot-NodeJS

Heavily recoded and modified from @nisrulz twitterbot-nodejs to work with the new twitter API and create A retweet framework using an array of search hashtags which are randomly selected to retweet from rather than a single search criteria. ALong with other features.

Fixed;

• If search return no result, it changes hashtag and retests instead of throwing an error.

• moved "tweeted" console.log from string to string and object to avoid the console.log error of tweeted:[Object:object] it now correctly prints the tweet data.

• Removed all broken stream.on() API calls.

New Features

• Added screen_name filter to remove you own tweets from the search list var myScreenName = 'your-name-minus-the@';

• Added search array var hashtags = ['#canBeAHash', 'orScreenNameNo@'];

• Added tweet new followers hacky (stream no longer works) you MUST change line var response = 'your text'+'@'+ screeName + 'more text' to whatever welcome message you want to send :)

• Added quote string array for canned quoted tweet comments can include @usernames, #hashtags, and URLS:

var quoteComment = [
  'Try our xyz, it is the business',
  'Thanks for this, we are sharing with the world',
  'Join our fb community for https://facebook.com/blahbalah #winning #bethebest #supertwitterbot'
 ];

• Randomisers; the choice of hashtag searched, the decision to retweet, or quote tweet with your quote, the quote, and the tweet used in the list is all randomised to bring an element or normal bahviour to the bot. You can have as many items as you want in the arrays and make them as complex as you like. You could even add variables based on the other factors to weight the responses to more accurately reflect the tweet it is quoting using prototype.map() and filter() from the tweets.statuses or tweets.statuses.user response similar to that used for filtering your own username:

tweets.statuses.filter(data => data.yourKeyHere != yourFilterHere); where yourKeyHere could be:

 retweet_count: 0,
 favorite_count: 1,
 favorited: false,
 retweeted: false,
 possibly_sensitive: false,

or you could search for a matching string inside the tweets.statuses.text and only tweet a cetain response when a matching string has been found, narrowing your response down further, making it more human like.

Features to be Added

• I will be adding some additional randomizors things like an array of descriptors i.e. ['great', 'excellent','awesome'] etc, which can be used along with other interchangable sections of sentance in order to randomise and auto generate conherent, but differing sentances which mean the same things to keep you tweets fresh.

Installation

• Install Node.js

• Clone this repo

     git clone https://github.com/wilburforce83/twitterbot-nodejs.git

• Run

   npm install

  It will install Twit, the library that lets us talk to Twitter.

Connecting to Twitter

1. Register a Twitter account and also get its "app info".

   Twitter doesn't allow you to register multiple twitter accounts on the same email address. I recommend you create a brand new email address (perhaps using Gmail) for the Twitter account. Once you register the account to that email address, wait for the confirmation email.

2. Now go here and log in as the Twitter account for your bot:

3. Fill up the form and submit.

4. Next once the submission completes you will be taken to a page which has the

   • "Settings" tab : Update details here
   • "Permissons" tab : Enable Read and Write
   • "Key and Access Token" tab : Click on Create my access token.

5. Use the generated tokens in the "Key and Access Token" tab to fill the fields under the config.js file in your app directory. It should look like this:

   module.exports = {
     consumer_key:         'blah',
     consumer_secret:      'blah',
     access_token:         'blah',
     access_token_secret:  'blah'
   }

6. Update the code under bot.js , with the your values. Best of all modify the code, tinker with it.

7. Now type the following in the command line in your project directory:

   node bot.js

Hopefully at this point you see a message like "Success! Check your bot, it should have retweeted something." Ok it won't say that, you have to code that in. Its simple as

console.log("Success! Check your bot, it should have retweeted something.");

Check the Twitter account for your bot, and it should have retweeted a tweet with the provided hashtag.

Credits

Twit Library

License

Copyright 2019 Nishant Srivastava, totally recoded and appended by Wilbur Shearer

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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