twit-bot

A Twitter bot that ...

Setup

• Create twitter app: apps.twitter.com (needs mobile phone in account)

• Set Read/Write permissions

• Uncheck "Allow this application to be used to Sign in with Twitter" in the app settings

• Take note of consumer key & secret

• Authorize app in bot account, for example using twurl (ruby gem):

    gem install twurl
    twurl authorize --consumer-key "consumer-key" \
      --consumer-secret "consumer-secret"
  

• Grab tokens from ~/.twurlrc and save them in .lein-env (you can use .lein-env.sample file as an example)

Build the bot!

The project provides just a skeleton for the bot: process-tweets will be called every time a new batch of tweets is received from the mentions timeline stream

From there, you can do anything! The sky is the limit! Just some ideas:

• Assume the tweet will contain clojure code, so eval it and respond to the user with the output. If you like to walk on the safe side, you should take a look to clojail
• YARPSB (AKA: Yet Another Rock, Paper, Scissors Bot)
• url shortener?
• Even an echobot would be a good idea to play around with clojure!

License

Copyright © 2015 FIXME

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.