0xgrimnir / simple-retweet-bot

A Python-built Twitter retweet bot using Tweepy. Can do multiple keywords/hashtags.

Twitter Retweet Bot using Python & Tweepy

A Python-built Twitter retweet bot using Tweepy. Searches and retweets based on hashtag or keyword. Can do multiple keywords, or hashtags.

What You Need && Need to Know

• Tweepy - An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API.

pip install tweepy

• Make sure you fully understand Twitter's Rules on Automation. Play nice. Don't spam!

Instructions

• Out of general OS hygiene, create a new directory to contain all of your retweet bot files.

mkdir retweet-bot

• Create a new Twitter Application. This is where you'll generate your keys, tokens, and secrets.
• Fill in your keys, tokens, and secrets in the keys.py file.
• Check comments in retweet.py to tweak the retweet bot to your liking.
• The example demonstrates a single hashtag value, but you can tweak the code to search multiple hashtags. Example:

q='%23apples%20OR%20%23oranges' will search #apples OR #oranges

• Run your retweet.py script. Enjoy!

python retweet.py

Additional Information

• Note: Make sure that your retweet.py and keys.py files are, obviously, in the same directory.
• Create a Cron Job or use Task Scheduler to automate this script.
• Consider using a Raspberry Pi to host your retweet bot, so it's always on and always running. :)

simple-retweet-bot's Issues

Saving last Re-Tweeted ID

Hello, I love this twitter bot and I was wondering is there a way to save the last tweet id and write this to a file and recall it so the bot does not try and re-tweet previously re-tweeted statuses to avoid the errors? I am sorry if this is in the wrong place, I am new to github.

no attribute oAuthHandler

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/Windotosh/retweet-bot/retweet.py", line 13, in
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
AttributeError: module 'tweepy' has no attribute 'OAuthHandler'

After putting in my keys and all that

Task scheduler

Hey, everything works except when i create a task using task scheduler, it says it's running but nothing works, I have to open the python script myself which turns off after few seconds when the bot retweets all the tweets. I made my task to run indefinitely every day all time, but nothing works

Retweet from certain users

I want to be able to use this bot to retweet all tweets from a list of selected users. How would I do that?