techb/ReTweet.py

Retweet everything from a specific Twitter account. Useful if a CEO wants to retweet everything their companies Twitter account posts.

ReTweet.py

A simple bot to retweet everything from a user Twitter account

Installation

• First you will need to create a Twitter developer account
  • https://developer.twitter.com
• Next you will need to create a Twitter App
  • https://botwiki.org/resource/tutorial/how-to-create-a-twitter-app/
• Save the API Key/Secrete and Access Token/Secret to use in the script
• Clone the repo
• Set up pipenv
• Install dependencies
• Copy creds_demo.json
• Update creds.json with key/secret and token/secret

$ git clone git@github.com:techb/ReTweet.py.git
$ cd ReTweet.py/
$ pipenv shell
$ pipenv install
$ cp creds_demo.json creds.json
$ vim creds.json
$ ... update key/secret and twitter account id you wish to retweet
$ python retweet.py

Usage

• To select which Twitter account you want to watch for tweets to retweet
  • Update who_to_retweet with the users Twitter Account Id
  • http://gettwitterid.com/
• ctlr+c to exit.
  • Note that it might take a second before exiting, really, give it a sec before spamming interrupts

Side Notes

• The current Twitter Account Id is for my dev/testing twitter account
  • @DevKB3