TwitterFavWatcher

Overview

this is a bot that quickly detect the Favoritting of someone's Twitter account, and post it to a Slack and/or Lingr

Description

how to work

1. Get someone's twitter favoritting via Twitter REST API
2. Take diff previous one
3. Post new one to Slack or Lingr via bot API

Requirements

• Your Twitter account (https://dev.twitter.com)
• Notitication destination:: Slack or Lingr
• Python 3
  • venv
  • peewee
  • tweepy
• Make

how to setup

1. clone this repo to some your directory

    $ mkdir -p ~/workspace
    $ git clone https://github.com/tinbotu/favwatch.git ~/workspace/favwatch
    $ cd ~/workspace/favwatch

2. copy configration file from a skeleton file

   $ cp settings.yml.skel settings.yml

3. CREATE YOUR TWITTER APP

   1. Go https://apps.twitter.com/
   2. Login or Join
   3. Click Create New App
   4. Fill in the form
   5. Go to Permissions tab
   6. Set access to read only
   7. Go to Keys and Access Tokens tab
   8. Copy these to settings.yml :: Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access Token, Acces Token Secret

4. setup your Webhook to your Slack (if necessary)

   1. Go https://YOUR_TEAM.slack.com/apps/A0F7XDUAZ-incoming-webhooks
   2. Click Add Configration
   3. Choose a channel or create, Click Add Incoming WebHooks integration
   4. Copy Webhook URL to settings.yml

5. setup your Lingr bot (if necessary)

   1. Go http://lingr.com/developer
   2. Click create a new bot
   3. Fill in the form and click Create
      • You have to prepare dummy URL that could to accept POST method, Fill in the Callback URL
   4. Copy Secret to settings.yml
   5. Go http://lingr.com/room/YOUR_ROOM/manage_bots and click invite a new bot, invite bot created above

first run

setup

$ make setup

if it fails, make sure that Python3, Python3-venv, Make, compilier to build some modules are installed.

run

$ make run

at the first run, all recent favorites will post (such many). only difference will be posted from the next time.

uninstall

1. delete working directory that git clone
2. revoke your Twitter APP, Slack WebHooks, etc (if necessary)

Author

github: tinbotu

License

MIT