py-twitter-automaton

Bot which automatically retweets and likes tweets based on user whitelist.

Setup Instructions

1. Clone a copy of the project to your computer.

git clone https://github.com/MikaSoftware/py-twitter-automaton.git

2. Setup your virtual environment.

OS X Environment:

python3 -m venv env

Linux or FreeBSD Environment:

virtualenv env

3. Activate the vritual environment.

source env/bin/activate

4. Install the required libraries to operate this script.

pip install -r requirements.txt

5. Go to http://apps.twitter.com and create an app. Once finished, be sure to make a copy of the following data:

• Consumer Key
• Consumer Secret
• Access Token
• Access Secret

6. Go into the source folder and change the secret_settings.py file by entering the values you saved from step (5).

cp src/secret_settings_example.py src/secret_settings.py
vi src/secret_settings.py

6. Replace the values with your Twitter API Keys/Tokens.

7. Now you are ready to run the application! Enter the following code and you will be able to have it running.

python3 automaton.py