This is a twitterbot that posts on a user's account using random selection or markov chaining.
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Must have a developer twitter account, and enter your consumer key and consumer secret key into the APIKEY.env file.
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Must include either a "tweets.json" to perform random tweeting or "prunedLyrics.txt" to perform markov chaining
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Download or clone the repo.
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cd src/TwitterBot -
Open APIKEY.env and fill in your developer account information for twitter.
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Option 1 or Option 2.
Option 1 To use random selection, copy a twitter .json file into the directory and rename it as randomSelection.json
Option 2 To use markov chaining, copy .txt file into the doc directory and rename it as markovChain.txt
- To run the program use
python3 main.py
For example purposes, the repo comes with the required files, randomSelection.json and markovChain.txt
randomSelection.json is a random database containing tweets located on twitter archive
markovChain.txt is a pruned lyrics textfile obtained using a lyricsGenius API first, and then parsing the .json into a text file using dataparser.py provided
NOTE: dataparser.py will only work on data extrapulated using the lyricsGenius API above.
