Abstract

This bot runs in the following ways.

1. Search tweets using search_term in Twitter.

2. Re-tweet the tweets.

In this example, search_term is Cafe Miyama, and you can see how it behaves by checking the following account.

http://twitter.com/cafemiyamabot

How to setup

1. Register your OAuth client on Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/oauth_clients NOTE: You MUST change permission settings to Read & Write if you wanna update via API. The default is Read Only.

2. Run python register_pin.py and use CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET you got from the registeration. NOTE: Make sure you are now signing in Twitter as your Bot account when visiting a given URL.

3. Change setting variables (CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET) in main.py to the given ones.

4. Run Google App Engine dev_server and visit the following URL URL: http://localhost:8080/cron/update

   • If you finish all of your setting, set debug_flag in main.py off.

5. Done!

Enjoy developing your own twitter bot!

YasuLab yohei@yasulab.jp