jeff457/half-life3-bot

Serverless Twitter bot

Half-Life 3 Twitter Bot

A serverless Twitter Bot that Tweets new releases on Steam and if that new release happens to be Half-Life 3.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6.x
• AWS CLI
• Twitter API Credentials

Setup

Create Lambda Function

Add dependencies and Lambda function to a zip archive, then create a Lambda function with the create-function command.

$ cd package
$ zip -r9 half-life3-bot.zip .
$ cd ..
$ zip -g half-life3-bot.zip half-life3-bot.py
$ aws lambda create-function --function-name half-life3-bot \
--zip-file fileb://half-life3-bot.zip --handler half-life3-bot.handler \
--runtime python3.6 --role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-cli-role

Where 123456789012 is the Role arn.

Additionally, you can also create the Lambda function via the AWS console. You will need to change the default handler to half-life3-bot.handler. Then, run ./updateLambda.sh

Set Environment Variables

This function assumes you set and encrypt environment variables.