Introducing people who have common interests, on Twitter.
To make a whole lot of Twitter introductions at once, IntroBot just needs a plain text datafile listing your community's Twitter users, and some text describing their interests. IntroBot parses this text, pairs people up, and introduces them, gracefully.
You'll need OAuth credentials to use the Twitter API -- once you have them, copy introbot/connection_template.py to introbot/connection.py and insert them. You then connect your own IntroBot to Twitter as follows:
from introbot import connection
This makes a twitter object called connection.line which you can pass to your IntroBot host.
The example script, introbot.py, gives a simple example of how to use a csv datafile of users and interests to generate some introductory tweets. Here's what it does.
Instantiate a host, who will do the introductions:
jeeves = introbot.Host()
Pass it the data it needs to figure out what to say:
jeeves.listen('example/pie.csv')
Pass the twitter object to the IntroBot, and have it start sending statuses.
jeeves.introduce(connection.line)
That's it! To actually send the tweets, just uncomment the statuses.update line in the Host.introduce method in introbot/host.py.
- David Harris @physicsdavid
- Phil Marshall @drphilmarshall
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