Random Twitter Bot

== Daniel Batalha

In this tutorial instalation i will show you guys how to install my twitter bots. The goal of this bots is randomly pick mention from a who tweet or retweet with a certain @mention i.e. a person who tweet something with @minecraft this bot will catch his @twittername. You can optionally match from some other string in a tweet text. The mentions is stored on a Mysql database.

After pick a random tweet from SQL Database and tweet to a random person like "@randomperson random cool tweet".

Note, this is a Open Source program feel free to use and modify, use it at your own risk.

Required Software to run this custom bot.

• Linux Machine.
• Ruby on rails.
• Ruby gems.
• Ruby json gem.
• Ruby fastercsv gem.
• Python3
• Tweepy
• MySQL Database.

Install all dependencies on Fedora.

Install Python3. yum install python3 Install ruby. yum install ruby Install the ruby gems. yum install gems Gems, make sure you install gems as root. gem install fastercsv gem install json Install tweepy program. yum install tweepy To install MySQL follow the instructions Link.

Install all dependencies on Ubuntu.

Install ruby sudo apt-get install ruby Install ruby gems, sudo apt-get install ruby-gems Gems, install as root. sudo gem install fastercsv sudo gem install json Install tweepy program. sudo apt-get install tweepy Install mysql. sudo apt-get install mysql-server