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How to build and deploy a multifunctional Twitter bot

Scott Spence on May 24, 2017

I've been busy building Twitter bots again! If you take a look at my GitHub profile, you'll see that I have quite a few repos relating to Twitter ...
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Ben Diuguid • • Edited

Awesome tutorial!

I was deploying my twitter-bot with now.sh and it appears that you need to run a web server or you can encounter errors while deploying, might want to modify you're deployment to include a simple node http server like the following

const {createServer} = require('http');

const server = createServer(() => {});

server.listen(3000);
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For more info check this GitHub Issue

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Scott Spence •

Thanks Ben, I came across this issue as well the other day. If you want I'd happily accept a PR for this.

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StellarStoic •

Thank you for your time writing such an extensive article.
But since I'm a n00b in JS and coding in general, I still have no idea how can I grab certain data from the nonTwitter API and tweet this data with my bot. The address where my data is is @ flysafe.klv.si/mobile/flights .But the bot will only tweet if the flight is longer then 100 km. Do I have to parse the data first or the twitter stream API is all I need?

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Scott Spence •

Hey @simplepotato thanks for taking the time to read through it.

It is quite an extensive post going over the examples which I hope gives you a better understanding of how to use the API.

It has been a while since I have done anything with the Twitter API so I'm not sure I'm the best person to ask my friend.

If it is a case of logic on some of the data then maybe add some conditional logic before it gets to the tweet?

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StellarStoic • • Edited

It surely gave me better understanding about bots. One of the best post out there. Well im going to figure it out the one way or another ☺ Thanks

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Scott Spence •

Good luck 💪

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Cary Miller •

Wow! Really exhaustive writeup. Thanks for this!

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Ben Halpern •

Wow, really great tutorial!

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Scott Spence •

Thanks Ben, it's a bit of a whopper isn't it? How did you find it to read?

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desempregado •

So it runs locally? I'm not familiar with the JS stack, but to my understanding you run the script once and kept restarting the function when needed?

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Scott Spence •

It's setInterval that triggers the functions. There's also the streams which triggers on Twitter events, like when someone follows you.