Twitter Bot

Get Version

0.0.2

What

Twitter Bot is a simple interface to twitter using xmpp4r to take advantage of the Twitter jabber interface.

Installing

sudo gem install twitter_bot

The basics

Twitter Bot comes with a generator that will get your project up and running easily with Twitter. There are only a few items that need to be modified and you will be on your way to having an awesome Twitter application!

Demonstration of usage

From your project directory run: 

ruby script/generate twitter_bot <name>

Where is the name of your twitter bot… any name will do.

This will generate the following files in your Rails project:

First, modify the config/twitter_bot.yml file with your Twitter username/password and your Jabber ID/password. Additionally, add phrase to track on Twitter.

Next, modify the lib/<name>_twitter_bot.rb file to specify the action to take when a tweet/follow/unfollow message is received. The default action for receiving a tweet is to log the message. The default action for receiving a follow message is to follow the user back and send a direct message. The default action for an unfollow is to log that the user is no longer following the Twitter user specified in the config/twitter_bot.yml file. Customize these in whatever way you see fit.

Don’t forget to require the twitter_bot gem in your project.

That’s it, you’re ready to go with Twitter integrated into your app. Just run the following command to start the bot: 

ruby script/twitter_bot start

To stop the bot use: 

ruby script/twitter_bot stop

How to submit patches

Read the 8 steps for fixing other people’s code.

The trunk repository is svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/integrum/twitter_bot for anonymous access.

You can fetch the source from:

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Contact

Comments are welcome. Send an email to Integrum

Integrum Technologies, LLC, 23rd May 2008
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