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Super-simple cursor twitter bot framework
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import tweepy | |
from time import sleep | |
from creds import * | |
from random import randint | |
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret) | |
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret) | |
api = tweepy.API(auth) | |
matches = ['Hello world', | |
'Hello, world', | |
'Hello, World!'] | |
phrases = ['Someone wrote, "hello world"', | |
'Yet another "hello world"', | |
'I see another "hello world"'] | |
for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, q=matches).items(): | |
try: | |
# Add \n escape character to print() to organize tweets | |
print('\nTweet by: @' + tweet.user.screen_name + ': ' + tweet.text) | |
# Retweet tweets as they are found | |
# tweet.retweet() | |
# print('Retweeted the tweet') | |
# Retweet with comment by embedding status URL | |
url = 'https://twitter.com/' + tweet.user.screen_name + '/status/' + tweet.id_str | |
pickPhrase = phrases[randint(0, len(phrases)-1)] | |
statusMsg = pickPhrase + ' ' + url | |
# api.update_status(status=statusMsg) | |
print(statusMsg) | |
# to avoid rate-limitation | |
sleep(5) | |
except tweepy.TweepError as e: | |
print(e.reason) | |
except StopIteration: | |
break |
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