100DaysOfCode Twitter Bot

Helping Developers who code and participate in #100DaysOfCode share and communicate through Twitter.

Bot Features

Retweet & Like a Tweet

When Followed, automated reply to the user

Congratulating user on starting/finishing #100DaysOfCode Challenge

#100DaysOfCode tweet has negative sentiment, tweets back encouragement

Tracks user interaction via `LevelDB` so users are encouraged once a day

Uses Cron job to tweet Project of the Day

Pre-requisites

This bot uses the twit npm package to manipulate tweets and streams and communicate with Twitter API. Please refer documentation to make substantial changes.

Contributing

You can help out by:

Solving existing issues
Enhancing the bot adding more functionalities (see issues)
Pointing out bugs/errors

For above option(s), please create an issue so it can be addressed. New to GitHub issues? They have a pretty handy guide you can use to familiarize yourself with them.

If You Can Make the Change

What you will need:

Your own Twitter account for testting your changes on
API Keys for Twitter and Sentiment
- Get your Twitter API keys here
- Get your Sentiment API key here
Fork the repository
Add API keys to .env file, your .env file should liik something like this:

TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdMhxg
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxkFNNj1H107PFv1mvWwEM6CZH0fjymV
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxecKpi90bFhdsGG2N7iII
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxZAU8wNKAPU8Qz2c0PhOo43cGO
SENTIMENT_KEY=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx7Ev80Pacp1h0c2kjsnMVVrG5m9MNlF
QUERY_STRING=#someTestHashTag
TWITTER_USERNAME=YourTestTwitterAccountName

Change any hashtags to #someTestHashTag so as not to spam the community hashtag
npm/yarn start to test, make sure it's not broken before you start 👍
Make your suggested change
Make sure the code style looks similar to the existing code, note that this project uses standard
Create a pull request

License

BSD 3-Clause License

barkinet/100DaysOfCode-twitter-bot