barebonesbot

A configurable Twitter-bot

This is a Python project to quickly implement Twitter bots that post authored content. It aims at providing the barebones of the Twitter bot, so that users only have to care about computing the content. It uses the clever "birdy" library to manage the Twitter API calls (including authentication).

To create a Bot using this library, you need:

• Twitter app credentials (https://apps.twitter.com/app/new)
• Subclass barebonesbot.BarebonesBot overwritting the get_selection method (which takes a single string argument referrer holding the value of the randomly picked referrer from the referrers entry in the config file).

To run your bot you need:

• A configuration file specifying Twitter app credentials, a list of referrers (names that are used to associate content with), and optionally other configuration variables.

An example using WikiQuote to extract quotes from the internet can be found in the examples directory of the repository.