A twitter bot that tweets the results of Chris Remo and Patrick Klepek's Spelunky grudge matches to @KlepekVsRemo
Utilizes the CodeBird Twitter Library. The text stroke function for PHP images was lifted from here. Since the version of PHP I'm using doesn't include the native imageflip function, I grabbed one from Stack Exchange.
All images were pulled from the PC version of Spelunky HD using this extraction tool.
This bot runs on a cron every 10 minutes. It investigates the Steam leaderboards for Spelunky Daily Challenges on the date it runs. If it finds Chris Remo or Patrick Klepek's score they will be retrieved and stored in a database. It will then tweet their results as well. If both players have completed the Daily Challenge for that day, it will also determine who had the highest score and tweet the winner. It also builds a "winner image" with details of both runs, level backgrounds for the level they ended on, and the hashtag of the winner.
I'm not sure why I picked PHP other than I knew how to use it more than anything else that would perform the tasks I wanted to perform. I was mainly interested in learning about Steam API data and interfacing with Twitter and wasn't really ready to add a new langage on top of that. Should probably be done in something more elegant, but there it is. I don't have a lot of the version history up on GitHub, but from here on out I should. Also, no branching! Playing with fire, I know, but my flimsy justification is that I'm the only one working on this. The whole thing still needs a lot of cleanup in general.
Things it does:
- Gets score and level data for a Daily Challenge run
- Attempts to find the corresponding Twitch.tv video URL for inclusion in the tweet
- Builds a daily image "badge" that includes various run information
- Builds a "winner image" that includes information for both runs
- Tweets individual run data (including the badge)
- Tweets the winner
TODO:
- Figure out why running from the shell on a cron causes errors because of the backslashes despite working correctly running it manually. It's running using wget at the moment which is kind of lame
- Possibly pull steam avatars every time? Probably not worth doing, but putting it here in case
- Fix checking for tweet via flat file, investigate twitter feed instead
Move functions to a different fileMove class to a different file- Clean up "determine winner" logic
- Fix Twitch function so that timezone difference won't be a problem
Clean up all hard-coded references to pwd- Comment more thoroughly
- Probably more?
