Twitter Bot - skeleton for twitter robots

If you need to create twitter bot that will eternally iterate over own followers - this is what you need.

Installation

Install it from npm:

npm install twitter_bot

Usage

1. Register twitter account for your bot.
2. Register twitter application for your bot.
3. Get access tokens for your application from your bot's account.
4. Write some code

   var util       = require("util"),
       TwitterBot = require("twitter_bot"),
       bot;
   
   // overwrite constructor
   function MyBot(config) {
       TwitterBot.call(this)
       // make something cool in constructor
       this.isCool = true;
   };
   
   util.inherits(MyBot, TwitterBot);
   
   // main function that you must implement
   MyBot.prototype.process = function(id, callback) {
       console.log("Processing user with id=" + id);
       setTimeout(callback, 1000);
   }
   
   // create instance of your bot
   bot = new MyBot({
       consumer_key        : "<consumer key from application settings page>",
       consumer_secret     : "<consumer secret from application settings page>",
       access_token_key    : "<auth token of your bot given to your app>",
       access_token_secret : "<auth token secret of your bot given to your app>",
       concurrency         : 10 // concurrency level, 10 is default
   });
   
   
   // start processing your followers
   bot.start();
   
   // after 10 seconds stop iterating new followers,
   // but finish processing current ones
   setTimeout(bot.stop.bind(bot), 10000);
   
   // this is it.

5. Promote yourself.

Projects

This project came from @listwatcher (sources) code and is used in @unfollowr twitter project to manage more than 200K followers.

Authors

• Ian Babrou