cmcsun/yourfavouriteponybot

A Twitter bot that responds with your favourite pony

Your Favourite Pony Bot

"Your Favourite Pony Bot" is a Twitterbot that will try to find a Twitter users favourite pony by looking at his/her posted Tweets.

See the bot in action!

Requirements

• Python 2.7
• Tweepy
• requests
• DerPyBooru
• sqlite3

Usage

python main.py -cf CONFIGFILE [options]

Options are:

• --nu/--noupdate - Do not update Twitter status

Look in config.json.example for an example

Interaction

You can mention the bot in a tweet like this: "@YourFavPonyBot Sup?"

The bot will then respond ASAP with a list of ponies he evaluated as possible candidates for your favorite pony.

Example response: "@Guy Your favourite ponies are Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash or Rarity!"

Pinging

You can ping another user so the bot will try its Algorithm on that user instead.

Example: "@YourFavPonyBot Ping @Nuke928"

Example response: "@Nuke928 @Guy Your favourite ponies are Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash or Rarity :D"

Chit-chat

Upon replying on a reply of the bot, he will try to understand the message you are trying to tell him.

Example: "@YourFavPonyBot But thats not my pony :(" - will be evaluated as negative.

The bot will then try to reply in a context appropriate matter.

Example: "@Guy Wasn't me who programmed this!"

Remarks

Mentioned Tweet-IDs will be written to mentioned.db and the log file is log.txt

mentioned.txt migration of 19th Dec., 2014

We moved saving data in mentioned.txt to a SQL database. Please use migrate_mentioned.py to migrate your .txt file.

Help wanted with

We need a bigger list of ponies and more intelligent answers. Take a look at ponies.json, answers.json, responses.json, statement_indicators.json and scorewords.json! If any confusion just ask.