mispy-archive / ebooks_example

Example of a full twitter_ebooks bot definition

ebooks_example

As requested, this is the twitter_ebooks app which I use to run most of my own bots. It tweets one guaranteed tweet every 24h, always responds to interactions, and has some small unprompted interaction probability based on keyword matching.

Usage

git clone https://github.com/mispy/ebooks_example.git
cd ebooks_example
bundle install
ebooks archive username corpus/username.json
ebooks consume corpus/username.json

Populate bots.rb with your auth details, the bot username and model name, then:

ebooks start

Also runs as a Heroku app! See the twitter_ebooks README for more information.

ebooks_example's Issues

More bot trickery: favourite on keyword and followback

https://twitter.com/Helenderson/status/523883553936113666

Basically, people would follow a bot, then immediately unfollow it so that the bot would favourite their tweets based on the hardcoded keywords.

To counter this, I disabled the hardcoded keywords and added a task that cleans out the followers once every hour. https://github.com/zhuowei/is_like_a

If you want to keep the hardcoded faves, maybe listen to unfollow events from the stream and unfollow back to avoid this?

parser issue

Reading json corpus from corpus/username.json
C:/Ruby23-x64/lib/ruby/2.3.0/json/common.rb:156:in `initialize': A JSON text mus
t at least contain two octets! (JSON::ParserError)

What's the issue?

Can't assign requested address

I'm getting a "Can't assign requested address" issue- every time it tweets and periodically in between. bots.rb is unexceptional, just the standard boilerplate with keys and timing changed. The other thing is that it can tweet but it can't respond to tweets or DMS- so I'm assuming this error is getting in the way. Relevant facts: OSX Yosemite. Any ideas?

@accountname: #<Errno::EADDRNOTAVAIL: Can't assign requested address - connect(2)>
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter-5.15.0/lib/twitter/streaming/connection.rb:16:in `initialize'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter-5.15.0/lib/twitter/streaming/connection.rb:16:in `new'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter-5.15.0/lib/twitter/streaming/connection.rb:16:in `stream'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter-5.15.0/lib/twitter/streaming/client.rb:119:in `request'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter-5.15.0/lib/twitter/streaming/client.rb:92:in `user'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.0/lib/twitter_ebooks/bot.rb:348:in `start'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.0/bin/ebooks:308:in `block (3 levels) in start'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.0/bin/ebooks:306:in `loop'
    /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.0/bin/ebooks:306:in `block (2 levels) in start'
@accountname: Sleeping before reconnect

ArgumentError: dump format error(0x27) on model read

Using your example on a Heroku-App (rb 2.4.1) crashes when it tries to read the model.
On my local machine (rb 2.4.1) it runs perfectly.
I don't know what the dump format error(0x27) wants to tell me.

2017-10-15T13:59:47.919742+00:00 app[worker.1]: bundler: failed to load command: ebooks (/app/bin/ebooks)
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919896+00:00 app[worker.1]: ArgumentError: dump format error(0x27)
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919897+00:00 app[worker.1]:   /app/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb:49:in `load'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919897+00:00 app[worker.1]:   /app/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb:49:in `block in load'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919898+00:00 app[worker.1]:   /app/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb:48:in `instance_eval'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919899+00:00 app[worker.1]:   /app/lib/twitter_ebooks/model.rb:48:in `load'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919900+00:00 app[worker.1]:   bots.rb:127:in `load_model!'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919900+00:00 app[worker.1]:   bots.rb:33:in `on_startup'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919901+00:00 app[worker.1]:   /app/lib/twitter_ebooks/bot.rb:371:in `fire'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919901+00:00 app[worker.1]:   /app/lib/twitter_ebooks/bot.rb:353:in `prepare'
2017-10-15T13:59:47.919916+00:00 app[worker.1]:   /app/bin/ebooks:361:in `block (2 levels) in start'

on_timeline has a chance of attempting to favourite a tweet multiple times

special is checked in two ways which can lead to the bot trying to favourite repeatedly

The first is at line 68, the second at line 81

Repeated attempts to favourite result in a crash (mispy-archive/twitter_ebooks#19)

heroku logging?

Sorry if this isn't the best place to have question.

I'm running this on Heroku, and after its first at reply, the bot isn't responding to anything. I checked my logs...

2014-06-11T22:37:30+00:00 heroku[slug-compiler]: Slug compilation finished
2014-06-11T22:37:29.853486+00:00 heroku[api]: Set LANG config vars by [email protected]
2014-06-11T22:37:29.923228+00:00 heroku[api]: Release v4 created by [email protected]
2014-06-11T22:37:29.853554+00:00 heroku[api]: Release v3 created by [email protected]
2014-06-11T22:37:29.923164+00:00 heroku[api]: Deploy 47d0c71 by [email protected]

and then nothing. When I was running it in the console, I got great logging. Any idea what's up here?

Crash on DM from non-follower

The bot crashes if it attempts to reply to a DM from someone who doesn't follow it:

/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/response/raise_error.rb:21:in `on_complete': You cannot send messages to users who are not following you. (Twitter::Error::Forbidden)
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/response.rb:9:in `block in call'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/response.rb:57:in `on_complete'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/response.rb:8:in `call'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/request/url_encoded.rb:15:in `call'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/request/multipart.rb:14:in `call'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/request/multipart_with_file.rb:14:in `call'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/rack_builder.rb:139:in `build_response'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/connection.rb:377:in `run_request'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/connection.rb:177:in `post'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/client.rb:108:in `request'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/client.rb:72:in `post'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/api/utils.rb:82:in `object_from_response'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/twitter-4.8.1/lib/twitter/api/direct_messages.rb:141:in `direct_message_create'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/twitter_ebooks-2.2.5/lib/twitter_ebooks/bot.rb:144:in `reply'
    from /home/dafranke/ebooks_example/bots.rb:30:in `block (2 levels) in initialize'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/eventmachine.rb:187:in `call'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/eventmachine.rb:187:in `run_machine'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/eventmachine-1.0.3/lib/eventmachine.rb:187:in `run'}}}

Problem with tweeting

Hey! :)
So I just updated ebooks from v2.2.5 to v3.1.0 and I've updated the configurations to the new versions as well (from what I can see on the github file)
I'm getting this whenever I try ebooks tweet model/name.model botname

Building: sentence 0 of 1228
/var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.6/bin/ebooks:247:in `tweet': undefined method `configure' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.6/bin/ebooks:412:in `command'
        from /var/lib/gems/2.1.0/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.1.6/bin/ebooks:429:in `<top (required)>'
        from /usr/local/bin/ebooks:23:in `load'
        from /usr/local/bin/ebooks:23:in `<main>'

Is there a solution, or have I done something wrong?

ebooks archive returns 401Unautorized

My bot was working properly, but just a few hours ago had I received a 401 error. Unable to find the problem, I ran:

rvm implode
gem uninstall rvm

and reinstalled my whole Ruby system so it's brand new. Now, whenever I try to get an archive of a user's tweets, it still returns the same error, which is below:

Erics-MacBook-Pro:ebooks_example eric$ ebooks archive epsund corpus/epsund.json
New archive for @epsund at corpus/epsund.json
/Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter-5.13.0/lib/twitter/rest/response/raise_error.rb:15:in `on_complete': Could not authenticate you. (Twitter::Error::Unauthorized)
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/response.rb:9:in `block in call'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/response.rb:57:in `on_complete'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/response.rb:8:in `call'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/request/url_encoded.rb:15:in `call'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/request/multipart.rb:14:in `call'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter-5.13.0/lib/twitter/rest/request/multipart_with_file.rb:17:in `call'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/rack_builder.rb:139:in `build_response'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/connection.rb:377:in `run_request'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/faraday-0.9.0/lib/faraday/connection.rb:140:in `get'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter-5.13.0/lib/twitter/rest/request.rb:33:in `perform'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter-5.13.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:51:in `perform_request'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter-5.13.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:96:in `perform_request_with_objects'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter-5.13.0/lib/twitter/rest/utils.rb:140:in `objects_from_response_with_user'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter-5.13.0/lib/twitter/rest/timelines.rb:49:in `user_timeline'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.0.0/lib/twitter_ebooks/archive.rb:76:in `block in sync'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.0.0/lib/twitter_ebooks/archive.rb:74:in `loop'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.0.0/lib/twitter_ebooks/archive.rb:74:in `sync'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.0.0/bin/ebooks:150:in `archive'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.0.0/bin/ebooks:322:in `command'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/gems/twitter_ebooks-3.0.0/bin/ebooks:339:in `<top (required)>'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/bin/ebooks:23:in `load'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/bin/ebooks:23:in `<main>'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `eval'
    from /Users/eric/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.3/bin/ruby_executable_hooks:15:in `<main>'

I've attempted redoing this process with rvm 1.9.3, 2.0.0, and 2.1.3, but no luck. It keeps giving this error. These are all the commands I've ran to this point:

git clone https://github.com/mispy/ebooks_example.git
bundle install
gem install twitter_ebooks
rvm use 2.1.3
//then, populated bots.rb with correct access key/tokens and consumer key/secrets for the BOT'S ACCOUNT.
ebooks archive epsund corpus/epsund.json

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanks.