bmarwell/twitter-tierkreiszeichenbot

A zodiac sign bot for twitter. Can post zodiac updates with a nice ASCII bar graph.

twitter-tierkreiszeichenbot

A zodiac sign bot for twitter. Can post zodiac updates with a nice ASCII bar graph.

Active bots

• 🇩🇪 @SternzeichenB (German, tz=Europe/Berlin)
• 🇬🇧 @BotZodiac (British English, tz=Europe/London)

Features

• You can enable or disable the progressbar.
• You can set a custom progressbar length.
• Translated to German and English, more languages are easy to add.
• TimeZone support.
• Will change avatar (twitter profile picture) according to zodiac sign.
• (Coming) will react to simple questions.
• (Coming) custom ASCII art bar characters.

Configuration

See Wiki:Configuration.

How to start

You can start this spring boot application via script or command line like this:

# Switch to any java 11, in this example I use jabba.
# Just make sure JAVA_HOME and PATH are set correctly.
jabba use "[email protected]"
# start like this
java \
  -Duser.language=de \
  -jar ~/bin/tierkreiszeichenbot-bot-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \
  --spring.config.location=file:$HOME/.config/sternzeichenbot.properties \
  --user.timezone=Europe/Sofia

twitter-tierkreiszeichenbot's Issues

Add ASCII bar graph length parameter

Number is not formatted by language code

In German or will print a decimal dot instead of a coma.

Supply progress bar chars via properties

e.g. --progressbar.chars=a,b,c,d
will result in [ddddbaaaaaaa]

Also, the user should be able to select from presets.

Add timezone parameter

Remove brackets and full stop in progress line

Remove brackets and full stop in progress line

The zodiacs are outdated.

You might want to update them.

https://www.livescience.com/4667-astrological-sign.html

Add resource pack for translation

Change twitter profile photo on new zodiac

Also add option to disable

Add cron parameters

Add ability to customize percent formatting

React to simple questions

React to (in German for now):
Potential tweets having #Sternzeichen or #zodiac, depending on language.

question about current zodiac sign

Twitter searches to reply with the current zodiac sign:

• "current zodiac sign" lang:en ?
• "Sternzeichen ist gerade" ? lang:de

Reply with the default tweet.

question about next occurance

• "next zodiac sign" ? lang:en
• "nächste Sternzeichen" ? lang:de

Answers should indicate date without year and the next occurrence in days.
Also, if it is the current zodiac, post how many days are left.