Comments on: How to make a Twitter bot

By: You Are Carrying, A Twitter Bot That Provides a Fictional Adventure Game Inventory | Museperk

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:28:53 +0000

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By: @ColHeightsMetro, or "My First Twitterbot" | Scott Donaldson

@ColHeightsMetro, or "My First Twitterbot" | Scott Donaldson — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:54:21 +0000

[…] in addition to being a source of inspiration for his work, Darius Kazemi has also written about the process of building a Twitterbot, and through digging through the comments that post I was able to find another article by Patrick […]

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 14:10:25 +0000

Thanks for the links!!

By: Wally Glutton

Wally Glutton — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 19:18:23 +0000

I gave a presentation on building Twitter Bots in Ruby last month at the BSides Winnipeg security conference.

The slides from my talk are available: http://stungeye.com/twitterbots2013/

A believe a video of the talk will eventually surface here: http://bsideswpg.ca/

By: MichaelPaulukonis

MichaelPaulukonis — Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:54:24 +0000

Oh, that’s even worse than I expected. I’ll never see sunlight again….

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:28:12 +0000

Yeah, that’s exactly what’s going on.

By: Pierre Chevalier

Pierre Chevalier — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:05:21 +0000

I think I got it.
Only the US and UK editions of google news display “hot trends” in the left menu, all the other editions (including french) don’t.

By: Pierre Chevalier

Pierre Chevalier — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:10:50 +0000

Ok I’m not sure this is the right place to ask for advice, since the article above is precisely about the fact that non-coders should expect hard struggle if they take the bot making path. So if this is a nuisance, apologies.

There is obviously something I don’t understand about the way .js script work, or maybe about the way google’s newsfeed works. In order to make a French version of twoheadlines, I’m trying to have @twoheadlines grabbing headlines in news.google.fr or e.g. in news.google.com/news/?ned=fr
I can run the original code without problem but as soon as I modify this :

request(baseUrl + ‘/news/section?ned=us&topic=’
because i want to change it for :
request(baseUrl + ‘/news/section?ned=fr&topic=’

all I get when running the bot is an “undefined” message.

I have the feeling I am missing something very obvious, do you have any idea of what it is?

Ok so anyway yes, making a bot must be technically challenging, you’re right.

By: Darius Kazemi

Darius Kazemi — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:09:36 +0000

Heroku is free for Twitter bots. The way it works is every app gets one free process (or “drone”). Each twitter bot only requires one process to run, so it’s free. Hooray!

By: MichaelPaulukonis

MichaelPaulukonis — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:45:00 +0000

Thanks for all of the info! I ran across your stuff sometime this summer, and have been digesting it slowly. I’ve been coming around to looking at my web/text experiments as gaming-interaction (of a poor, frustrating sort), so it is very interesting to see how you’ve come to text experiments (how I’m characterizing your twitterbots, at any rate) from gaming.

What the range of your Heroku costs for the various twitter-bots?