Make-A-Twitter-Bot Workshop

twitterbot.md

#Make-A-Twitter-Bot Workshop

Session led by Allison Parrish

##Some of my bots

• Power Vocab Tweet (markov chains)
• Library of Emoji (context-free grammars)
• Egress Methods (CMU pronouncing dictionary)
• Eventually Bot
• smiling face withface

##About bots

Here's a short presentation on the history and aesthetics of Twitter bots.

##Your first bot

You can make a Twitter bot without doing any computer programming using this Google spreadsheet.

Here's the tutorial in full.

##Next steps

Now that you've made a simple iterative Twitter bot, you've got the know-how to proceed to more sophisticated techniques. Here are some resources:

• I made a very simple Twitter bot for Node.js using the node-twitter-api library.
• everywordbot is another simple Python framework for writing Twitter bots. (It only makes static bots, but could be used as a starting point for something more sophisticated.)
• Getting Twitter credentials in several languages
• Twython is a Python library for the Twitter API
• thricedotted's Twitter bot framework: makes it easy to write bots that schedule tweets and reply to tweets
• Twit is a fine Node.js library for accessing the Twitter API
• Twitter bot framework for Node.js (limited functionality, but is a good starting point)
• Darius Kazemi has made available several of his (Node.js) Twitter bots as open source: Sorting Hat (more info here), Hottest Startups, Metaphor-A-Minute, Museum Bot.
• twitter4j, a Twitter library for Java (works with Processing!)