Berlin Javascript Twitter Bot

Purpose

Keep me hip with JS developers in Berlin

What does it do?

Every hour it looks for new tweets with web development related hashtags from fellow developers in Berlin and retweets them to my account.

Want to make one for yourself

Clone repo and install modules

$ git clone https://github.com/JacobWylie/twitter-bot.git
$ npm install

Make a twitter account Sign up for Twitter

Setup a new app on your account Create an application

Follow the steps to get your

• Consumer Key
• Consumer Secret
• Access Token
• Access Token Secret

Setup your account keys/tokens on the server of your choosing

OSX

$ export BOT_CONSUMER_KEY={your consumer key}
$ export BOT_CONSUMER_SECRET={your consumer secret}
$ export BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN={your access token}
$ export BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN_{your token secret}

Heroku

$ heroku config:set BOT_CONSUMER_KEY={your consumer key}
$ heroku config:set BOT_CONSUMER_SECRET={your consumer secret}
$ heroku config:set BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN={your access token}
$ heroku config:set BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN_{your token secret}

Windows

$ SET BOT_CONSUMER_KEY={your consumer key}
$ SET BOT_CONSUMER_SECRET={your consumer secret}
$ SET BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN={your access token}
$ SET BOT_ACCESS_TOKEN_{your token secret}

Customize your bot

Change search params

• q = queries
• count = how many tweets will be retrieved
• geocode = location of tweets and radius

let params = {
    	q: '#something', // Required
    	count: 5,
    	geocode: '52.520007,13.404954,30mi',
    	result_type: 'recent',
    	lang: 'en'    
}

Run the app locally

npm start

or

Host it on Heroku for FREE

$ heroku create our-twitterbot-name
$ git add .
$ git commit -m ""
$ git push heroku master
heroku addons:create scheduler:standard

Go to your Heroku dashboard and configure the Heroku Scheduler to run the app periodically. You can also setInterval() in your app and run your app as a 'worker' on Heroku.