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Tutorials¶
General¶
- How to Make a Twitter Bot: The Definitive Guide (by Stefan)
- Creative bots and accessibility (by Stefan)
- Twitter and Procedural Generation (by Joe Sondow)
node.js¶
- Botwiki on Glitch (by Stefan)
- Twitter Bot Tutorial – Node.js and Processing (by Daniel Shiffman)
- tracery-twitter-bot (by Byron Hulcher)
- Make a Twitter bot that tweets random images (by Stefan)
- Smarter & Cuter Bots (by Rachel White)
See also: Twitter bot project templates on Glitch
Python¶
- What is a Twitter bot? (by Molly White)
- How to create a Twitter bot (by Molly White)
- Build A Bot Workshop (by Terian Koscik)
- Making a bot that tweets a random image (by Stefan)
- Build and Deploy Twitter Bots with Python, Tweepy and PythonAnywhere (by Iyanuoluwa Ajao)
- How To Create a Twitterbot with Python 3 and the Tweepy Library (by Lisa Tagliaferri)
- Using Twitter bots for data visualization (by Stefan)
- Tutorial Creating a Twitter bot with Python, OAuth 2.0, and v2 of the Twitter API (by Jessica Garson)
- Noun Verb Bot (by Jessica Garson)
- Kickstart your Twitter bot with our Glitch example written in Python (by Jessica Garson)
- Five Steps To Build Your Own Random Non-Sequitur Twitter Bot (by Lauren Orsini)
- How to Code a Simple Twitter Bot for Complete Beginners (by Sarah Sahim)
- Coding a simple Twitter bot (by Anthony Gladman)
- Devs in the Details: How to Create a Twitter Bot (by Jessica Garson)
- How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2 (by Max Woolf)
Never ceases to amaze, stun me that a significant number of the “people” on Twitter are programs.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 10, 2017
Ruby¶
- Civ V Random Game Generator Twitterbot (by Katelyn Dinkgrave)
- Your Own @Horse_ebooks (by Josh Trommel)
Tracery/Cheap Bots Done Quick¶
Check out the dedicated Tracery page.
SSBot (Google Spreadsheets)¶
Tutorials that use Zach Whalen‘s Google Spreadsheets-to-Twitterbot tool.
- Tiny Flashing Thumbs (by Zach Whalen)
- Hook, bait and camouflage (by Nora Reed)
- How to make a Twitter Bot with Google Spreadsheets (by Zach Whalen)
Raspberry Pi¶
- Raspberry Pi Twitterbot (by Scott Kildall)
- How to build a nonsensical Twitterbot on the Raspberry Pi (by Emily King)
- Python + BeautifulSoup + Twitter + Raspberry Pi (by Robin Camille Davis)
Other languages¶
- Build Your Own Topic Bot (by Hatnote)
- How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes (by Amit Agarwal)
- Tutorial on Python Twitter Bots (by @mcburton)
- How to Build a Law Bot (by David Colarusso)
- Tutorial on Creative Twitterbots (by Tony Veale)
- How I Built a Twitter Bot Using Auth0 Webtasks and Data.gov (by Auth0)
- Create a simple, free, text-driven Twitterbot with AWS Lambda & Node.js (by Erin McKean)
- Polyglot Twitter Bot (by Joel Grus)
- Twitter’s missing manual (by @eevee)
- Alt text support for Twitter Cards and the REST API (by @twitterdev)
- API support for 140 second video (by @twitterdev)
- Tweet Metadata Timeline (by Jim Moffitt)
- Emoji on Twitter (by Emojibase)
See also @twitterapi for updates on the Twitter API and the Twitter Developer Platform Roadmap Trello board.
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs as it launches a replacement https://t.co/OGEWfHT4E8 via @techcrunch
— A friendly encyclopedia of 🤖💻💾 (@botwikidotorg) May 17, 2018
Migration Guide: Moving from User Streams/Site Streams to Account Activity API: https://t.co/pgQ4U1EVaE
— A friendly encyclopedia of 🤖💻💾 (@botwikidotorg) May 17, 2018
Some #TwitterAPI Trivia
Twitter launched in 2006, and just a few months later, the Twitter API was released. 🎉
The first s̶e̶t̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶d̶o̶c̶s̶ doc for v1 looked like this 👇 pic.twitter.com/VpvIma5wRk
— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) July 15, 2020
Frameworks and libraries¶
Twitter API¶
node.js¶
- twit (by Tolga Tezel)
Python¶
- tweepy (by Tweepy)
- twython (by Ryan McGrath)
- twitterqa (by Pascal van Kooten)
- heroku_ebooks (by Tom Meagher)
Ruby¶
Java¶
- markov (by Joe Sondow)
- lambda-twitter-base (by Joe Sondow)
Other languages¶
- anaconda (by Aditya Mukerjee)
- twitterBot (by Matteo Redaelli)
- Literal Twitter Bot Kit (by BubbleSort Zines)
For more frameworks and libraries built for the Twitter platform, check out Twitter Libraries at developer.twitter.com.
Working with language¶
Python¶
- word-tools (by Hugo)
- twitter_markov (by Neil Freeman)
Working with images¶
Python¶
- randimgbot (by Hugo)
- spatchwork (by Bob Poekert)
- binary-numbers (by Ross Spencer)
Tools¶
See also: A list of Twitter-bot hosting platforms.
Python¶
Other¶
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