reply to user

src/api/reply.js

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+const Twit = require('twit')
+const unique = require('unique-random-array')
+const config = require('../config')
+
+const param = config.twitterConfig
+const randomReply = unique(param.randomReply.split(','))
+
+const bot = new Twit(config.twitterKeys)
+
+// function: tweets back to user who followed
+function tweetNow(text) {
+  let tweet = {
+    status: text
+  }
+
+  bot.post('statuses/update', tweet, (err, data, response) => {
+    if (err) {
+      console.log('ERRORDERP Reply', err)
+    }
+    console.log('SUCCESS: Replied: ', text)
+  })
+}
+
+// function: replies to user who followed
+const reply = (event) => {
+  // get user's twitter handler/screen name
+  let screenName = event.source.screen_name
+
+  const response = randomReply()
+
+  const res = response.replace('${screenName}', screenName);
+
+  tweetNow(res)
+}
+
+module.exports = reply

src/bot.js

@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ const config = require('./config')
 const bot = new Twit(config.twitterKeys)
 
 const retweet = require('./api/retweet')
+const reply = require('./api/reply')
 
 // retweet on keywords
 retweet()
 setInterval(retweet, config.twitterConfig.retweet)
 
 // reply to new follower
-
-
+const userStream = bot.stream('user')
+userStream.on('follow', reply)

src/config.js

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@ module.exports = {
     retweet: process.env.TWITTER_RETWEET_RATE * 1000 * 60,
     like: process.env.TWITTER_LIKE_RATE * 1000 * 60,
     quote: process.env.TWITTER_QUOTE_RATE * 1000 * 60,
-    searchCount: process.env.TWITTER_SEARCH_COUNT
+    searchCount: process.env.TWITTER_SEARCH_COUNT,
+    randomReply: process.env.RANDOM_REPLY
   },
   sentiment_api_key: process.env.SENTIMENT_KEY
 }