py-twitter-bot

A basic template for creating a twitter bot with Python 3 and the tweepy library. The functionality of this will grow over the next month, so follow along.

Instructions

1. Clone or download repo
2. Install tweepy by running 'pip install tweepy' from command line
3. Create a Twitter Account
4. Create a Twitter App
5. Get your Consumer Key, Consumer Secret Key, Auth Token and Auth Secret Token
6. Insert the Keys and Tokens into the creds.py file and keep this file private. Add to your .gitignore if you use a repo.
7. Put your tweet string into the twitter-bot.py tweet method call
8. Run twitter-bot.py You can put on a CRON scheduler to keep on firing at specific times