XRP Away™️ - automatically block XRP fanatics sliding into your Twitter mentions

xrpaway.py

# Requirement: pip install tweepy
import tweepy

# Credentials go here (generate at: https://apps.twitter.com)
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler('consumer_key', 'consumer_secret')
auth.set_access_token('access_token', 'access_token_secret')

# Connect to Twitter
api = tweepy.API(auth)

# Grab last 200 mentions (max. threshold the Twitter API supports)
mentions = api.mentions_timeline(count=200)

# Loop through the mentions
for tweet in mentions:

	# If the username or bio contains XRP (case-insensitive), block them
	if "XRP" in tweet.user.screen_name.upper() or "XRP" in tweet.user.name.upper() or "XRP" in tweet.user.description.upper():

		# Submit the report
		block = api.create_block(user_id=tweet.user.id, screen_name=tweet.user.screen_name)

		# Log blocked user
		print("Blocked: " + tweet.user.name + " / @" + tweet.user.screen_name)

Some tips to get this working:

• Make sure you're running Python 3.x
• Don't forget to create a Twitter app @ https://apps.twitter.com and replace the API tokens on lines 5 & 6
• You can run this manually from the terminal periodically, but it's recommended you set up a simple cron job to do this automatically every minute or so. If you're not familiar with cron, look up a crontab tutorial - it's pretty simple. An example job to run this every minute would look similar to: * * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /usr/xrpaway.py

This is now my favorite gist. Thank you for this!

I really missed an opportunity in not calling this XRPelliarmus, didn't I?

Just EPIC

So great.

It's beautiful

How do I run this Python script?

wow, my nine year old kids would love this, thank you

How do I run this Python script?
Please, attach here bat or bash startup script 😭😭😭

Sorry I assume you're going to be inundated with all sorts of takes on this, but I'm actually quite astonished at Elon Musk's critique. The code does a very specific task, it is well-formed, it's commented and even has instructions to install requirements and run it. By no definition is this "nonsense", it does exactly what it sets out to do and in addition there's no indication of incompetence (or being "a tool") - it's just a helpful little script.

It sounds like Elon just ... doesn't know software development (like really basic software development) got a bit embarrassed about it and decided to lash out instead of trying a line like "heh yeah i'm too busy squashing unions memeing on twitter saving the world to deal with code these days"