edoumazane/pingpong

PingPong

PingPong is a Twitter bot (let's say: @your_bot) that replies "pong" whenever someone mentions "@your_bot" in a tweet that contains "ping", "Ping" or "PING".

You can test it by posting "ping @E_Dmz_Bot" on Twitter.

Please visit https://twitter.com/E_Dmz_Bot and https://twitter.com/E_Dmz for more.

[🧡 Code] PingPong 🤖 is a bot that replies "pong" whenever someone mentions me in a tweet that contains "ping".#Python #cron #twitterapi
Source code is here ⤵️https://t.co/sWjYub3fv8

— E-Dmz bot (@E_Dmz_Bot) July 12, 2021

<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Prequisites

• Having write and read keys for @your_bot https://developer.twitter.com/en/portal/dashboard

• Python 3 with python-twitter library

• CRON (i'm running it on Ubuntu 20)

Installation

1. Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/E-Dmz/PingPong.git

2. Manage your keys

Modify keys_template.py with your own keys and save it as keys.py.

3. Change absolute path in PingPong.py

Modify complete_path_to_IDs from '/home/edmz/TwitterBot/PingPong/IDs' '/your/absolute/path/to/PingPong/IDs'

You need to be careful about paths. Note that I had a hard time fixing it and I'm not sure I get it right... However, before changing relative path to absolute path, running script worked fine, but not in a CRON job. It may come from the CWD not being the same. More information on this CWD problem might be found in this question on Stack Overflow (note that I did NOT have to make a .sh script or chmod anything to sort this out).

4. Set up a CRON job

# open your crontab editor
crontab -e # then copy-paste "*/15 * * * * python3 path/to/PingPong/PingPong.py" and exit editor pressing Ctrl + S Ctrl + X

# see what's in your crontab
crontab -l

# check on your past cron jobs 
grep CRON /var/log/syslog