defendpdxcode / defendpdx-twitterbot

This is the open-source bot that runs the Twitter Bot on @DefendPDX

-DefendPDX-TwitterBot

This is the open-source bot that runs the Twitter Bot on @DefendPDX

Planned Scope

The idea is to create a new twitter retweeting bot that will Retweet users using the "#DefendPDX" hashtag as a callsign to the bot. With a little bit of added security, we want to make sure the bot has the option to enable/disable a allow-list.

1. Strict Allow-list: Enabled during an event/action and only trusted/reputable people & organizations can boost through the bot.
2. Extended Allow-list: A list of accounts that are added by moderators, just a simple manual profile review and they're added in.
3. Unmoderatred: Anyone/Everyone can use the bot to RT, but not those already blocked/muted.

defendpdx-twitterbot's Issues

Provide existing sourcecode if any?

Do you already have some code?
Also, why Python specifically?

Deduplicate repeated tweets?

I often see cases where multiple people attempt to RT w/ #defendPDX
(Heck, I've done it myself before I learned to get better at checking other retweets first)
However, slowing down to check for other RTs reduces the utility of the repeater somewhat.

How would you like to handle duplicates and deduplication?
Some ideas/cases to think about:

• Could a sufficient number of tweets from accts not on the allow-list cause a repeater RT?
• How far down a chain of RTs should a dupe be considered a dupe?
  e.g. if Alice tweets "King Bun on 3rd and Salmon" and Bernice RTs with "DefendPDX" then some time later (after more retweets) Francie retweets the lot saying "King Bun moved to 5th & Main #DefendPDX" we might want to RT the updated information.

Desired license?

Might be a good idea to pick a license before code gets contributed.
I'd suggest the MIT license for max permissiveness (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License), but GPL is also a popular choice which forces others using the code to keep it open-source -- a feature known as "copy-left" or "viral license" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License).

(Apologies in advance if that's already known to whomever is behind the anonymous acct. I hope it's not patronizing)

Further desired specs?

How do you want to interact with the bot to be able to change modes, add users, remove users, etc?

I have a python IRC->Twitter bot that could be fairly easily repurposed for this. A simple web interface could also work if you had a trusted web server to run it from.

Let me know what the further required specs are and I’d be happy to contribute.

Potential inspiration bot

Ran across this, it seems to do about 80% of what you want already:
https://github.com/skiprox/eat-shit-bot
There's a few forks that are ahead of this too so it might be worth seeing what they've added

Change main branch name from 'master' to 'main' or similar

https://dev.to/rhymu8354/git-renaming-the-master-branch-137b