Tweeter Bot API

INSTALL

Make sure you have python 2.7 or 3.5 installed Install tweepy and flask

Running the REST server

Set the following enviroment variables from your tweeter dev accont: TW_CONSUMERKEY, TW_SECRETKEY, TW_ACCESS_TOKENKEY, TW_TOKENSECRET

from the command line run:

python api.py

Using the REST API

There are two main functionality of the bot:

1. Search tweets for a specific link and reply to it with a specific text
2. Give the list of all tweets of a specific hashtag given

1. Responding to links:

url: /respond-to-links

parameters:

article_links: links to search for (multiple can be given)
response: the text to respond with

example: goto localhost:5000/respond-to-links?article_links=fakenews.example.com&article_links=fakenews.example.org&response="Your link is a fake news site!"

2. Get all tweets with hashtag

url: /hashtag-tweets

parameters:

hashtags: list of hashtags to search for (multiple can be given)

example: goto localhost:5000/hashtag-tweets?hashtags=fakenews&hashtags=fake_news