Listen to a twitter account for a mention of a crypto currency and buy it.
Originally built for the @officialmcaffee account after watching that whatever crypto he mentioned for his "Coin of the day" rose signifigantly.
- A suitable environment to run the bot. screen on *nix should do.
- Knowledge of Python
- A Bittrex account with BTC available, and an API key with trade access.
- Tolerance for risk (**this might fail miserably and lose money)
- Twitter streaming API access. This is the hardest part, it's a PITA to set up.
- Clone the repo
- Create a virtualenv with python3
- Install the requirements (
pip install -r requirements.txt)
- Run
python bot.pywith the appropriate environment variables set - Profit (or loss)
[ ] Sentiment analysis on the tweet to make sure that it is a positive mention
[ ] Sanity checks to make sure we don't do stupid stuff like buy more than once