j0s3f / horse_thatbooks

Source code for @horse_thatbooks

== horse_thatbooks ==

This is the source code for @horse_thatbooks. Created at THATCamp CHNM 2012.

In a nutshell, it does the following:

• Pulls the latest tweets with the #thatcamp hashtag
• Stores them in its tweet cache (tweets.txt, which holds up to 500 tweets)
• Runs them through a Markov chain process to create some new text
• Adds the #thatcamp hashtag, and sends the tweet

Thanks to the following libraries:

• MarkovBigram
• twitteroauth

== How to use ==

1. Download this repo. Note that the external libraries listed above are linked as submodules. If you're running a git clone, you can fetch them with

    git submodule init
    git submodule update
   

   If you've downloaded the zip file from Github, you'll have to get the libraries yourself (from the links above) and place the files in their respective directories (lib/php-twitteroauth and lib/MarkovBigram)

2. Create a file called tweets.txt

3. Copy config.sample.php to config.php

4. Get creds from Twitter

5. Put those creds in config.php

6. Set a cronjob to call php /path/to/twitter.php

7. ???

8. Profit