The twitter bot repeats given tweets randomly.
This bot fetches tweets from PostgreSQL.
First of all, you need to store tweets into a table in the SQL.
$ pgsql -c "CREATE tweets (tweet text, not_yet boolean)"
$ pgsql -c "INSERT INTO tweets VALUES ('$tweet1', TRUE)"
$ pgsql -c "INSERT INTO tweets VALUES ('$tweet2', TRUE)"
$ # ...
$ # you can also copy tweets from a file (e.g. 'tweets.csv')
$ # please refer the documentation of PostgreSQL or some others.This bot get some values from the environment variables. You need to set the below variables before running this.
| variable | value |
|---|---|
| CONSUMER_KEY | Consumer API key of your twitter app |
| CONSUMER_SECRET | Consumer API secret key of your twitter app |
| ACCESS_TOKEN | Access token of your account |
| ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET | Access token secret of your account |
| DATABASE_URL | URL to your PostgreSQL database |
$ go build
$ env # Ensure environemnt variables are correctly set before running
...
CONSUMER_KEY=...
CONSUMER_SECRET_KEY=...
ACCESS_TOKEN=...
ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=...
DATABASE_URL=...
...
$ ./cycle-twitter-bot