After @AnnoyingNavi (http://davidcurado.com.br/projects/annoyingnavi/) and @DBZNappa it was finally time for me to create a Twitterbot
The idea came from Portal2s “Spacesphere”. The thing which always says “SPAAAACE”.
How did i do this?
I wrote a little python script :)
It simply searches every 5 mins the Twitter API and replies to everyone who wrote “portal2″. Due to the API Limit it can’t reach everyone, but many of them tho :)
// A little update here: 5 mins was way too fast. Lot of people got spammed again and again. To avoid this, i changed the time to 30 mins. For now.
// Another Update: SpaceSphere got suspended for violating the Twitter rules. I created a new account and completly rebuild the API Script to avoid spamming.
Technology
- Python
- Tweepy
- Linux (Cron)
Interested in the Script? Mail me.
Visit him here: http://twitter.com/#!/spacesphere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVn1oQL9sWg
Hey, I liked your bot! =) I also liked how you did it… never considered using cron, my program does all the waiting… =(
Very cool bot!
Hey, nice to hear that.
It’s pretty simple :) On Ubuntu just type “crontab -e”. This will open the crontab file with your favourite editor.
*/30 * * * * python /scripts/spacesphere.py does the job for me.
*/30 means every 30 minutes. */5 would do it every 5 minutes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron gives a very nice explanation about the timing syntax
@Dave: Thanks! =)
No problem :)
You’re navi was a inspiration :p
@Dave: Although I did the coding, the idea came from a friend… inspired by DBZNappa =P I think he inspired many bots afterwards…
Even so, it’s nice to hear that you liked Navi… =P
Awesome! I’m the creator of DBZNappa :P
DBZNappa runs every 5 minutes, without duplicates. What I did with it was save the maximum tweet ID, and pass that as the “since_id” parameter to the search.
PHP source code for DBZNappa is available at https://gist.github.com/820281
@Daniel15: cool stuff :) gonna try that later !