Ask HN: Whats the easiest way to build a Twitter bot nowadays?
I need to create a simple twitter bot that can take the tweets listed in say a CSV text file, and then tweet those tweets on a schedule.
Rather than build it myself, I expect that there has to be some sort of utility or a website or a template that I could use to get started?
This is for a personal itch I need to scratch so duct taping is totally ok
I do exactly this. I use oysttyer[0] to do the tweeting, and I wrote a bash script to:
* read a line from a file;
* tweet that line;
* rotate the line to the bottom.
The magic is in oysttyer. It is a little tricky getting it to run automatically because it requires the tweet text as a command line parameter, and can't read it from a file or stdin. Even so, all pretty trivial, really, depending on your existing skill set. You need skills to:
* read the line and feed it to oysttyer;
* rotate the top line to the bottom;
* set up cron scheduling.
Posting a tweet picked from a file at random: http://johnbokma.com/blog/2019/03/08/posting-a-tweet-picked-...