yasulab / simpletwitterbot

Gather tweets including 'search_term' on Twitter, and re-tweet it. This bot runs on Google App Engine. The following twitter account shows a sample bot run on Google App Engine.

Abstract

This bot runs in the following ways.

1. Search tweets using search_term in Twitter.

2. Re-tweet the tweets.

In this example, search_term is Cafe Miyama, and you can see how it behaves by checking the following account.

http://twitter.com/cafemiyamabot

How to setup

1. Register your OAuth client on Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/oauth_clients NOTE: You MUST change permission settings to Read & Write if you wanna update via API. The default is Read Only.

2. Run python register_pin.py and use CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET you got from the registeration. NOTE: Make sure you are now signing in Twitter as your Bot account when visiting a given URL.

3. Change setting variables (CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET) in main.py to the given ones.

4. Run Google App Engine dev_server and visit the following URL URL: http://localhost:8080/cron/update

   • If you finish all of your setting, set debug_flag in main.py off.

5. Done!

Enjoy developing your own twitter bot!

YasuLab [email protected]

simpletwitterbot's Issues

urllib2.URLError

C:\Documents and Settings\hugo.delacruz\github\Simple-Twitter-Bot>python regist_pin.py
What is your CONSUMER_KEY? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What is your CONSUMER_SECRET? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "regist_pin.py", line 44, in <module>
if name == "main": main(sys.argv)
File "regist_pin.py", line 36, in main
tw = twitter()
File "regist_pin.py", line 18, in twitter
request_token = tw.getRequestToken()
File "C:\Documents and Settings\hugo.delacruz\github\Simple-Twitter-Bot\oautht
witter.py", line 201, in getRequestToken
resp = self._FetchUrl(url, no_cache=True)
File "C:\Documents and Settings\hugo.delacruz\github\Simple-Twitter-Bot\oautht
witter.py", line 109, in _FetchUrl
url_data = opener.open(url).read()
File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 391, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 409, in _open
'_open', req)
File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 369, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 1169, in https_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
File "C:\Python26\lib\urllib2.py", line 1136, in do_open
raise URLError(err)
urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:480: error:140770FC:SSL routin
es:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol>

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