#!/usr/bin/env python import twitter import requests import pytoml as toml import trigger from time import sleep import traceback class RetweetBot(object): """ This bot retweets all tweets which 1) mention him, 2) contain at least one of the triggerwords provided. api: The api object, generated with your oAuth keys, responsible for communication with twitter rest API triggers: a list of words, one of them has to be in a tweet for it to be retweeted last_mention: the ID of the last tweet which mentioned you """ def __init__(self, trigger, config, historypath="last_mention"): """ Initializes the bot and loads all the necessary data. :param historypath: Path to the file with ID of the last retweeted Tweet """ self.config = config keys = self.get_api_keys() self.api = twitter.Api(consumer_key=keys[0], consumer_secret=keys[1], access_token_key=keys[2], access_token_secret=keys[3]) self.historypath = historypath try: self.user_id = self.config['tapp']['shutdown_contact_userid'] self.screen_name = \ self.config['tapp']['shutdown_contact_screen_name'] except KeyError: self.no_shutdown_contact = True self.last_mention = self.get_history(self.historypath) self.trigger = trigger def get_api_keys(self): """ How to get these keys is described in doc/twitter_api.md After you received keys, store them in your ticketfrei.cfg like this: [tapp] consumer_key = "..." consumer_secret = "..." [tuser] access_token_key = "..." access_token_secret = "..." :return: keys: list of these 4 strings. """ keys = [] keys.append(self.config['tapp']['consumer_key']) keys.append(self.config['tapp']['consumer_secret']) keys.append(self.config['tuser']['access_token_key']) keys.append(self.config['tuser']['access_token_secret']) return keys def get_history(self, path): """ This counter is needed to keep track of your mentions, so you don't double RT them :param path: string: contains path to the file where the ID of the last_mention is stored. :return: last_mention: ID of the last tweet which mentioned the bot """ try: with open(path, "r+") as f: last_mention = f.read() except IOError: with open(path, "w+"): last_mention = "" return last_mention def format_mastodon(self, status): """ Bridge your Retweets to mastodon. :todo vmann: add all the mastodon API magic. :param status: Object of a tweet. :return: toot: text tooted on mastodon, e.g. "_b3yond: There are uniformed controllers in the U2 at Opernhaus." """ toot = status.user.name + ": " + status.text return toot def crawl_mentions(self): """ crawls all Tweets which mention the bot from the twitter rest API. :return: list of Status objects """ while 1: try: mentions = self.api.GetMentions(since_id=self.last_mention) return mentions except twitter.TwitterError: print("[ERROR] Rate Limit exceeded, trying again in a minute") sleep(60) except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: print("[ERROR] Bad Connection.") sleep(10) def retweet(self, status): """ Retweets a given tweet. :param status: A tweet object. :return: toot: string of the tweet, to toot on mastodon. """ while 1: try: self.api.PostRetweet(status.id) return self.format_mastodon(status) # maybe one day we get rid of this error. If not, try to uncomment # these lines. except twitter.error.TwitterError: print("[ERROR] probably you already retweeted this tweet.") return () except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: print("[ERROR] Bad Connection.") sleep(10) def tweet(self, post): """ Tweet a post. :param post: String with the text to tweet. """ while 1: try: self.api.PostUpdate(status=post) return except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: print("[ERROR] Bad Connection.") sleep(10) def flow(self, to_tweet=()): """ The flow of crawling mentions and retweeting them. :param to_tweet: list of strings to tweet :return list of retweeted tweets, to toot on mastodon """ # Tweet the toots the Retootbot gives to us for post in to_tweet: self.tweet(post) # Store all mentions in a list of Status Objects mentions = self.crawl_mentions() mastodon = [] for status in mentions: # Is the Text of the Tweet in the triggerlist? if self.trigger.is_ok(status.text): # Retweet status mastodon.append(self.retweet(status)) # save the id so it doesn't get crawled again self.last_mention = status.id # Return Retweets for tooting on mastodon return mastodon def shutdown(self): """ If something breaks, it shuts down the bot and messages the owner. """ print("[ERROR] Shit went wrong, closing down.") if self.no_shutdown_contact: return with open(self.historypath, "w") as f: f.write(str(self.last_mention)) self.api.PostDirectMessage("Help! I broke down. restart me pls :$", self.user_id, self.screen_name) if __name__ == "__main__": # create an Api object with open('ticketfrei.cfg') as configfile: config = toml.load(configfile) trigger = trigger.Trigger(config) bot = RetweetBot(trigger, config) try: while True: bot.flow() sleep(6) except: traceback.print_exc() bot.shutdown()