Python Twitter Bot

Description

A easy build and lightweight twitter bot written in Python. For this project I also created batch-files to run the script in background and to start it easily globally via the terminal, but I decided not to publish it in this repo.

Feel free to use it.

Usage

Simply create some text-file w/ the tweets in it separated by §§§. Run the script with:
twitter-bot.py <file> <number of seconds to wait>

Given the example.txt file containing two sample tweets, you can call the script as follows:

$ python twitter-bot.py example.txt 10

This will publish both tweets with ten seconds between each.

Docker

If you want to run it in a Docker container to keep things clean, please insert your twitter API credentials into the config.py file, write your tweets into the provided example.txt file and run the following two commands:

$ docker image build -t twitter-bot .
$ docker container run -it --rm --name twitter-bot twitter-bot

This will publish the tweets with a delay of ten seconds between each.

To Do

• provide a way to specify the input file and delay via Docker ARG and ENV