ebook_your_friends

A Python script (person_bot.py) that uses the Twython Twitter API wrapper to read tweets from a user's timeline and post Markov-generated tweets to a bot account, a Markov text generator (markov.py) to generate tweets, and a shell script (setup_heroku.sh) to get the bot automatically tweeting on Heroku.

requirements

• Twython
• ntlk

usage

If you just want to make a single "ebook" account for yourself or a friend, follow these instructions. For a more detailed tutorial on making Twitter bots using this repo, read this blog post.

1. Clone the repo and install requirements using pip: pip install -r requirements.txt
2. Edit person_bot.py with the twitter handle (do not include the "@") of the person you want to make a bot of
3. Setup a new Twitter account for your bot
4. Go to apps.twitter.com, create a new application, and grab its API credentials
5. Set your API credentials as environment variables (APP_KEY, APP_SECRET, OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET). You can then check out some sample tweets from your bot in the Python repl by importing person_bot and running: generate_status(get_tweets(user))
6. source setup_heroku.sh and follow the prompts to get your bot tweeting automatically with Heroku (make sure you have git installed and a Heroku account)

Have fun (◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)

examples

I've used this framework to make a few bots for my friends.

todo

• add @ reply functionality