NPR calling me and @[email protected] "bot watchers [...] bemoan[ing] the imminent demise of creations they loved".
Fair enough.
#bots #CreativeBots #Twitter #TwitterAPI
Stefan's creative bot showcase 🤖🎨
Stefan Bohacek has been working for years to enable almost anyone to create simple, automated bots, offering up everything from a constantly-updated view of the weather at the South Pole to one that posts excerpts from the City of New York's archives of civic data (here's a map of every Latin cultural organization in the city!) to ones that post obscure and delightful images from the collections of museums around the world.
— The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again, Rolling Stone, 2023
This page lists all the creative bots I've made over the past decade (77 active, 10 inactive, 87 in total), with 11,701 unique followers across 1,383 servers, as of July 2026.
A few other things that might interest you:
- tutorials and descriptions of my bot projects on my blog
- my 2023 retrospective on Twitter bots
- my other projects on my personal website
And here's how you can support my work. And follow me on Mastodon!
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- Latest
- Popular
- Live views
- Space
- Weather
- Wildlife and animals
- Nature
- Maps and history
- Language
- Data visualizations
- Wikipedia and Wikidata
- Transit and travel
- NYC bots
- Books, reading, literature
- Archives
- Generative art
- Retro and vintage
- Interactive and prompts
- Memes, jokes, and others
- Fediverse
- Botwiki
Watching some penguins and puffins.
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Explore the doors around the great city of NYC 🗽
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“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit” ― Nelson Henderson
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Who will emerge a champion?
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Cartridge designs for imagined video games.
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Prediction of the intensity and location of the aurora borealis and australis.
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Manuals for test equipment and vintage electronics.
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And that's it.
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Views from the South Pole.
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Drawings of roots.
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🌧🌧🌧
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Riding trains.
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DO THIS INSTEAD
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Explore distant worlds.
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Views from the great city of NYC 🗽
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Keeping track of Wikipedia pages with most edits.
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Views from the South Pole.
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Views from the North Pole.
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Views from RRS Sir David Attenborough.
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Views from the great city of NYC 🗽
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Live from space!
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Watching some bears.
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Watching some penguins and puffins.
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Views from the highest webcam in the world, pointed at Mount Everest.
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Enjoy views of lakes.
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Views from the middle of an ocean.
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Views of skies.
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Views of volcanoes.
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Prediction of the intensity and location of the aurora borealis and australis.
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Live from space!
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Exploring the universe.
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Exploring galaxies.
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Explore distant worlds.
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Hello from our sun.
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🌨️
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Watching some bears.
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Watching some penguins and puffins.
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Birds and their sounds. Wikidata query by Silvia Gutiérrez @[email protected].
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Dinosaurs!
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Watching the African wildlife.
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“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit” ― Nelson Henderson
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Drawings of roots.
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Parks around the world.
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Enjoy views of lakes.
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Views from the middle of an ocean.
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Views of volcanoes.
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🌧🌧🌧
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🌨️
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Exploring historical maps.
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Train stations around the world.
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Lighthouses around the world.
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Statues around the world.
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Parks around the world.
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Money around the world, and through history.
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Hello from around the world
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Sounds from around the world.
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Explore the city of New York through data.
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Explore the state of New Jersey through data.
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Breakdown of the last 100 bills introduced in the US government.
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Keeping track of Wikipedia pages with most edits.
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Events that happened on this day in history, from Wikipedia.
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This bot posts random Wikipedia userboxes.
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Riding trains.
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Train stations around the world.
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All aboard!
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Updates about New York's public transit.
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Views from the great city of NYC 🗽
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Explore the doors around the great city of NYC 🗽
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Explore the city of New York through data.
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Updates about New York's public transit.
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This one’s for you.
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Libraries around the world.
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Quotes from the The Care and Training of Your Pet Rock by Gary Dahl, published in 1975.
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I would prefer not to.
- 💬 Reply bot
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Drawings of roots.
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“The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit” ― Nelson Henderson
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Exploring historical maps.
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Manuals for test equipment and vintage electronics.
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Cartridge designs for imagined video games.
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🌧🌧🌧
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🌨️
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Describe what's in this image.
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A robot painter, very Pollock-like.
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Exploring creativity and authorship with generative art and a bot.
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Your eyelids are getting heavy...
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Computers!
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Hey, remember this!
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Go play some classic arcade games!
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Photos of floppy disks.
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Manuals for test equipment and vintage electronics.
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Choose your favorite emoji!
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Describe what's in this image.
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Identify the capital based on a country flag.
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Better and more positive interactions on social media.
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Turn emoji into a story!
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How's your day going?
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If you *had* to choose.
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Who will emerge a champion?
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Happy name day!
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Arrgh!
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And that's it.
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DO THIS INSTEAD
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What a week, huh?
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No.
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Playing The Lick.
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These datasets probably don't exist.
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Keep track of latest updates to Mastodon's official mobile apps.
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Posting when new items are added to Mastodon's public roadmap.
- Frequency: Every thirty minutes
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Explore Botwiki one fediverse bot at a time.
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See what's new on Botwiki!
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Explore Botwiki one bot at a time.
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@introspectorbot
Created in 2018
A bot that looks at itself
No longer working on Twitter bots.
Looking for timestamps that are prime numbers!
The bot is too noisy.
@vhs
Analog noise.
No longer able to generate 10-second preview clips from YouTube.
Views from above.
No longer able to generate 10-second preview clips from YouTube.
Arr! Doubloons!
Created in 2018
Booty!
No longer working on Twitter bots.
Great new business opportunites arise.
Needs more work.
Keeping track of Mastodon's upcoming releases.
GitHub Milestones have been removed as they no longer reflect ongoing work.
Watching some fish.
- Follow on Mastodon
- RSS feed
- View source for the Tropical Reef Aquarium bot
- Learn more about the Tropical Reef Aquarium bot
No longer able to generate 10-second preview clips from YouTube.
Watching some fish.
No longer able to generate 10-second preview clips from YouTube.
UNTITLED
Inspired by the work of Mark Rothko and Benjamin Kovach.
Lost source code :-/
