py-twitter-retweeter

Description

A python script which retweets tweet with specific hashtags to a twitter account.

Features

• Get the latest tweets using Twitter Stream API
• Re-tweet tweets specific text and hashtags

System Requirements

• Python 3.4.x+
• pip 6.1.1+
• virtualenv 12.1.1+

Dependencies

• tweepy 3.5.0

Build Instructions

1. First clone the project locally and then go into the directory

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

2. Setup our environment:

(OSX)
python3 -m venv env

(Linux/FreeBSD)
virtualenv env

3. Activate "virtualenv" for this script:

source env/bin/activate

4. Confirm we are using Python3

python --version  # Should return Python 3.x

5. Now let's install the required libraries:

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

6. Bugfix an error with tweepy by reading the instructions here: tweepy/tweepy#615

7. 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

8. 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

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

Usage

To run the application, simply enter the following line:

python retweeterbot.py

License

BSD

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