jade-bot

Jade-Bot

Jade-bot is a Node-based Twitter bot which automates the process of Twittering for @jmthorntonwhat.

This doesn't mean there's never a human behind my Twitter account, just some of my account.

Installation

Set up the bot

$ git clone <https://github.com/Raindeer44/jade-bot.git>
$ cd jade-bot/
$ npm
$ npm test

Jade-bot is also available on npm:

npm install --global jade-bot

Get API keys

Set up an application on the Twitter account you want to use: https://apps.twitter.com/app/new. Add to the .env file:

• Consumer Key (API Key)
• Consumer Secret (API Secret)
• Access Token
• Access Token Secret

.env also needs the rate at which you want the bot to retweet (in minutes).

For example, .env might look something like

CONSUMER_KEY=Fw***********P9
CONSUMER_SECRET=TD************Cq
ACCESS_TOKEN=31**************UC
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=r0************S2

TWITTER_RETWEET_RATE=30

Start the bot

That's all the set up! Now just run

$ npm start

For continuous usage, either run on a server (if you happen to have one lying around) or deploy to Heroku, a serverless architecture or a similar service.

Contributing

Please fork this repository and contribute back using pull requests.

Any contributions, large or small, major features, bug fixes and integration tests are welcomed and appreciated but will be thoroughly reviewed and discussed.

Links

This bot was created with the help of Spences10's Node.js Twitter bot bootstrap, and with inspiration from @amanhimself.