ashtilawat23/nifty-curator-bot

Bot that runs the @niftycurator account on Twitter.

nifty-curator-bot

Bot that runs the @niftycurator account on Twitter.

How to send your first tweet!

1. Created an empty repo named Nifty-Curator-Bot.
2. Cloned repo locally in a directory designated for the project.

git clone https://github.com/ashtilawat23/nifty-curator-bot.git

3. Initialized a node application and created a default package.json.

npm init -y

4. Installed 'dotenv' and 'twitter-api-client'.

npm i dotenv
npm i twitter-api-client

5. Created .env.sample file. The values that you need include:
   • Cosumer API Key
   • Cosumer API Secret
   • Access Token
   • Access Token Secret
6. Created .env file. Copy/pasted values from Twitter Developer Portal.
7. Import twitter-api-client and dotenv into your file.

require('dotenv').config()
const {TwitterClient} = require('twitter-api-client')

8. Create a TwitterClient using the values in your .env file.

const client = new TwitterClient({
    apiKey: process.env.CONSUMER_API_KEY, 
    apiSecret: process.env.CONSUMER_API_SECRET,
    accessToken: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN,
    accessTokenSecret: process.env.ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET,
});

9. Send your first test tweet using client.tweets.statusesUpdate().

client.tweets.statusesUpdate({
    status: "Testing! 1.. 2.. 3.."
}).then (res => {
    console.log("Your Tweet was sent!", res)
}).catch (err => {
    console.error(err)
});

10. Add "start": "node index.js" to scripts in your package.json.

 "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1",
    "start": "node index.js"
  },

11. Run npm start in your terminal inside the nifty-curator-bot directory.