apps.twitter.com

Pro-tip for Gmail users:

username+modifier@gmail.com
redirects to username@gmail.com

which is useful for creating multiple twitter accounts

Twit.js

						// tweet 'hello world!'
Twit.post('statuses/update', { status: 'hello world!' },
function(error, data, response) {
  console.log(data);
});

// filter the twitter public stream by the word 'mango'.
var stream = Twit.stream('statuses/filter', { track: 'mango' });

stream.on('tweet', function (tweet) {
  console.log(tweet);
});
					

bot.js

						var keywords = [
    "international men's day",
    "international man's day",
    "international mens day",
    "international mans day",
    "national men's day",
    "national man's day",
    "national mens day",
    "national mans day"
];

var reply = "It's November 19th.";
					

bot.js

						function isValid(tweet) {
    // Don't reply to tweets mentioning November 19th:
    var november = hasKeyword(['November','Nov','19','19th'], tweet.text);
    // Don't reply to Richard Herring
    var richard = tweet.user.screen_name === 'Herring1967';
    // Don't reply to RTs
    var rt = tweet.retweeted_status !== undefined;

    return !november && !richard && !rt;
}
					

Express.js

A fast, minimalist Node.js web server framework

						// Express server:
var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.set('port', (process.env.PORT || 5000));
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.listen(app.get('port'), function() {
  console.log("Node app is running at localhost:" + app.get('port'));
});
					

2016

Slides

richardwestenra.com/mensdaybot-talk

Resources

MensDayBot, Simple Twitter Bot and Twit on Github

How to set up a simple JS Twitter bot

Create a Twitter application

MensDayBot admin on Heroku

Thanks!

richardwestenra.com

twitter.com/richardwestenra

github.com/richardwestenra