jmlwhittington/randomrsstwitterbot

A Twitter bot written in C# using Tweetinvi and System.ServiceModel.Syndication to tweet a random article from a custom list of RSS feeds at a custom frequency in hours.

randomrsstwitterbot's Issues

Double new lines in console after tweeting successfully

Doesn't appear in logs, just need to find where and why it is doing this and tweak it.

Queue seems to be running exactly at queueGap in hours rather than queueGap plus one as intended

Unsure how this is happening according to code. Waiting to see if it happens again. If it does, I will not change code but merely change readme and config to reflect this (queueGap = gap, not queueGap = gap - 1). It will actually be more simply explained this way, but it was still not intended.

Queue running out of sync again for unknown reason

Potentially related to #11, but unsure. Will investigate further when time frees up.

Random crashing, believed to be tied to technically infinite recursion

I just realized the methods never end the wait I am using them, so I replaced a great deal of the calls with returns and stuck a while loop in Main. It should be fixed, but creating issue just in case.

Attempt number in duplicate prevention resetting each time

Need to correct, had this prior but thought it was fixed before pushed.

Some URLs print weird when using apostrophes

I believe this is due to it being a string and the apostrophe allowing the text to escape. URLs still seem to work as intended, however.

Seeking/tweeting time drifts over time

This is due to asynchronous code, which is required for the syndication feed and tweeting. For instance, across ten hours, it drifted 29 seconds. I will likely fix by running the timer every 30 seconds instead of 60, which will automatically reset the drift every ~12 hours instead of risking the bot tweeting too late should it execute code at the 59 second mark or near and rollover. Example: 7:00:31 AM code execution, followed by 8:00:01 AM code execution.

Following hour frequency entry, new line is doubled

If you remove Environment.NewLine, it does not post any, but if you leave it, it posts two. Unsure how to fix as it stands, not a big deal either.

Running bot test at start does not show exit prompt

Everything does run successfully, but it is supposed to say "[timestamp]: Press any key to exit..." and wait for user prompt before closing. It does not currently do this.

Crash when not adding extra line(s) to frequency.txt after adding new source(s)

Need to add a check to add extra lines at the end.

"Press any key to exit" is misleading

"Press any key to exit" is misleading as you have to always press Enter to activate it when the keys.txt file is not present or after running a test tweet (this functionality does not currently work, but if it did as intended, this would be pertinent).

Bot runs after timer interval in config rather than according to frequency in config

Probably incorrect variable being used, will investigate it tomorrow and push patch.