Smile Please

Twitter bot which tweets a new random quote hourly. Deployed on Replit.

Quotes are from a custom 500k quotes dataset made from Goodreads stored in MongoDB hosted at Mongo Atlas.

There is also a secondary method for getting quotes using the Forismatic API, which is added as a fallback which can be used as a default.

The bot also has support for dividing the tweet in 2 if it is longer than 280 chars.

Checkout the tweets at:

Prerequisites

Get the twitter credentials from your Twitter Developer Account here.
By default the bot uses the db for quotes. If you want to use the API by default set quote-method environment variable to api.
To get access to Mongo Atlas. Register on MongoDB Cloud.
For hosting. Register on Replit or choose any other provider of your choice.

For using this bot clone this repositary and install the dependencies from the requirements file.

Enter your details in a .env file like this(for Local Environment ):
- consumer_key = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
- consumer_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
- access_token = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
- access_token_secret = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
Optional variables-:
- quote_method = "db or api" (db by default)
- database_uri = "Your Mongo Atlas URI" (Required if quote_method is db)
- platform_type = "local,replit" (local by default )
- twitter_profile = "twitter profile url" (https://twitter.com/smile_plz12 by default)
- logging = "off or on" (off by default)
- HOST = "Host url" (localhost by default)
- PORT = "Port number"(8080 ny default)
Or set these variables in your deployed environment.