Chandrika Deb
Posted on December 5, 2020
🚀 Installation
Clone the repo
$ git clone https://github.com/chandrikadeb7/Girlscript-Twitter-Bot.git
Install tweepy Python module
$ pip install tweepy
💡 Working
Sign up for a Twitter Developer Account
- Create a separate Twitter account for your bot.
- Sign up for Twitter Developer Account from this site - Apply for a Twitter Developer Account
- Enter the necessary fields and await for email confirmation.
- Click on Create an app
- Enter the details and keep safe the access tokens generated.
Enter your generated access tokens and consumer keys in the file credentials.py
consumer_key = ''
consumer_secret = ''
access_token = ''
access_token_secret = ''
Edit the retweet and other details in the file config.py
# This is hastag which Twitter bot will search and retweet. You can edit this with any hastag .For example : '#javascript'
QUERY = '#anything'
# Twitter bot setting for liking Tweets
LIKE = True
# Twitter bot setting for following user who tweeted
FOLLOW = True
# Twitter bot sleep time settings in seconds. For example SLEEP_TIME = 300 means 5 minutes.
# you can decrease it or increase it as you like.Please,use large delay if you are running bot all the time so that your account does not get banned.
SLEEP_TIME = 300
🔑 Deployment
- Sign up for a free account in Heroku
- Click on New -> Create new app
- Enter the app-name in lower case and select your nearest region.
- Choose Heroku CLI for deployment. Follow the steps given in Deploy tab.
- Once the build is successful enable the Free Dynos option from Overview tab.
👏 And it's done!
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Chandrika Deb
Posted on December 5, 2020
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