Suggestions

[rhiever]

Suggestions

[selimanac]

Not sure if it's correct or not. Don't try to retweet multiple times:

def get_do_not_retweet_tweet(self):
        """
           Returns list of current retweets.
        """
        if not os.path.isfile(self.BOT_CONFIG["TWEETS_FILE"]):
            with open(self.BOT_CONFIG["TWEETS_FILE"], "r") as out_file:
                out_file.write("")


        do_not_retweet_tweet = set()
        dnrt_list = []
        with open(self.BOT_CONFIG["TWEETS_FILE"]) as in_file:
            for line in in_file:
                dnrt_list.append(int(line))


        do_not_retweet_tweet.update(set(dnrt_list))
        del dnrt_list

        return do_not_retweet_tweet

def auto_rt(self, q, count=100, result_type="recent"):
        """
            Retweets tweets that match a phrase (hashtag, word, etc.).
        """

        result = self.search_tweets(q, count, result_type)
        do_not_user_retweet = self.get_do_not_retweet_list()
        do_not_retweet_tweet = self.get_do_not_retweet_tweet()

        for tweet in result["statuses"]:
            if tweet["id"] not in do_not_retweet_tweet:
                print("TwittID: %s" % tweet["id"])

                try:
                    # don't retweet your own tweets
                    if tweet["user"]["screen_name"] == self.BOT_CONFIG["TWITTER_HANDLE"]:
                        continue

                    if tweet["user"]["id"] not in do_not_user_retweet:
                            result = self.TWITTER_CONNECTION.statuses.retweet(id=tweet["id"])
                            with open(self.BOT_CONFIG["TWEETS_FILE"], "a") as out_file:
                                out_file.write(str(tweet["id"]) + "\n")
                            print("retweeted: %s" % (result["text"].encode("utf-8")))


                # when you have already retweeted a tweet, this error is thrown
                except TwitterHTTPError as e:
                    # quit on rate limit errors                                                                                                                  
                    if "rate limit" in str(e).lower():
                        print("You have been rate limited. Wait a while before running the bot again.")
                        return

                    print("error: %s" % (str(e)))

[rhiever]

👍 Can you please submit this code as a pull request once you've tested it a little bit?

[rhiever]

Regarding

Improving Rate Limit: Rate Limit returns how long you should wait as time format. This is complex i know. Just an idea… Don't break the script, wait until limit and continue….

I've never actually looked in detail how rate limiting works on the Twitter API. And do all actions equally count toward the API? I've seen times when I was rate limiting for following users but could still search tweets and favorite them.

[Loaft]

Anyway I can retweet a users latest tweets? Or only retweet/fav a users timeline?

[rhiever]

@Loaft: That's currently not implemented in the bot.

Honestly, I'm unsure about implementing auto-messaging features because that leads to very annoying, spammy messages being sent out all the time.