From eb811bb1483e965e0395b369ff1272879af95ecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: b3yond <b3yond@riseup.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 19:04:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] finished the standalone twitter bot!
---
README.md | 8 +++---
triggerwords | 24 +++++++++++++++++
twitter/main.py | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e4d57a6..8011ed0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,15 +35,15 @@ $ pip3 install Mastodon.py pytoml
- [x] How to crawl mentions with the mastodon API
- [x] How to boost people with the mastodon API
- [x] How to access the twitter API
-- [ ] How to crawl mentions with the twitter API
-- [ ] How to retweet people with the twitter API
+- [x] How to crawl mentions with the twitter API
+- [x] How to retweet people with the twitter API
## to do
-- [ ] Twitter: Crawl mentions
+- [x] Twitter: Crawl mentions
- [ ] Mastodon: Crawl mentions
- [ ] Write toots/tweets to database
-- [ ] Twitter: retweet people
+- [x] Twitter: retweet people
- [ ] Mastodon: boost people
- [ ] Mastodon: toot who has been retweeted on twitter
- [ ] Twitter: tweet who has been boosted on mastodon
diff --git a/triggerwords b/triggerwords
index e69de29..1463537 100644
--- a/triggerwords
+++ b/triggerwords
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+kontrolle
+ticketfrei
+konti
+db
+zivil
+sicherheit
+uniform
+station
+bus
+bahn
+tram
+linie
+nuernberg
+nbg
+nürnberg
+s1
+s2
+s3
+u1
+u2
+u3
+s4
+u21
+u11
diff --git a/twitter/main.py b/twitter/main.py
index b9d2a81..7b87b70 100644
--- a/twitter/main.py
+++ b/twitter/main.py
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ After you received keys, store them in ../../api_keys, one at a line.
"""
with open("../appkeys/ticketfrei@twitter.com", "r") as file:
keys = file.readlines()
- for i in keys:
- print i,
+ for status in keys:
+ print status,
# create an Api object
@@ -25,58 +25,61 @@ api = twitter.Api(consumer_key = keys[0].strip(),
# This counter is needed to keep track which was the last tweet you retweeted
+# ACTUALLY it keeps track of the last mention, whether you retweeted it or not.
with open("../last_rt", "r+") as file:
last_rt = file.read()
# Words which have to be included into the tweets for the tweet to get retweeted
with open("../triggerwords", "r") as file:
- triggers = file.readlines()
+ triggers = [s.strip() for s in file.readlines()]
try:
while 1:
sleep(1)
# Store all mentions in a list of Status Objects
- try:
- mentions = api.GetMentions(since_id=last_rt)
- except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
- done = False
- while done == False:
- try:
- mentions = api.GetMentions(since_id=last_rt)
- done = True
- except:
- sleep(10)
+ done = False
+ while not done:
+ try:
+ mentions = api.GetMentions(since_id=last_rt)
+ done = True
+ except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
+ print("[ERROR] Bad Connection.")
+ sleep(10)
- print mentions
- for i in mentions:
- print i.user.name, i.user.id, i.text # debug
+ print mentions # debug
+ for status in mentions:
# Is the Text of the Tweet in the triggerlist?
- for j in triggers:
- if i.text.lower().find(j):
+ should_retweet = False
+ for triggerword in triggers:
+ if status.text.lower().find(triggerword):
+ should_retweet = True
+ break
- # Retweet status
+ # Retweet status
+ if should_retweet:
+ done = False
+ while not done:
try:
- api.PostRetweet(i.id)
+ api.PostRetweet(status.id)
+ done = True
# This is an Error we need to get rid of. Why are tweets RTed twice?
- except twitter.error.TwitterError:
- print("[ERROR] probably you already retweeted this tweet.")
+# except twitter.error.TwitterError:
+# print("[ERROR] probably you already retweeted this tweet.")
+# done = True
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
- done = False
- while done == False:
- try:
- api.PostRetweet(i.id)
- done = True
- except:
- sleep(10)
+ print("[ERROR] Bad Connection.")
+ sleep(10)
+
+ # save the id so it doesn't get crawled again
+ last_rt = status.id
+ print last_rt
- # save the id so it doesn't get crawled again
- last_rt = i.id
- break
except:
- api.PostDirectMessage("Help! I broke down. restart me pls :$", "801098086005243904", "links_tech")
+ print "[ERROR] Shit went wrong, closing down."
with open("../last_rt", "w") as file:
- file.write(last_rt)
\ No newline at end of file
+ file.write(str(last_rt))
+ api.PostDirectMessage("Help! I broke down. restart me pls :$", "801098086005243904", "links_tech")
\ No newline at end of file