A simple Twitter bot to help block users more efficiently

• https://twitter-please-block.herokuapp.com

Ensure you have Python 3 installed on your device, as well as MySQL.

1. Git clone this repo
2. Obtain consumer key and secret from the Twitter Developer portal. The app should be configured to enable Sign in with Twitter:
3. cd twitter-app.
4. On your local setup, create an .env and Set env variables:

APP_NAME
APP_URL

APP_CONSUMER_KEY
APP_CONSUMER_SECRET
APP_ACCESS_TOKEN
APP_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

DB_HOST
DB_NAME
DB_USER
DB_PASSWORD

5. Create database
6. Setup a pipenv environment, and install dependencies:
   1. virtualenv twitter-app
   2. source ../twitter-app/bin/activate on mac or ../twitter-app/bin/activate windows
   3. pip install -r requirements.txt
7. Start the app:
   1. python app.py; or
   2. gunicorn app:app

Note: A Procfile is included for deployment to cloud solutions.

Finally, revisit the dev portal, and add your app's callback URL (https://your-deployed-url/callback e.g http://127.0.0.1:8000/callback) to the callback URL whitelist setting. Once saved, follow the instructions on the app's web UI to click through the demo pages.

Twitter Developer Portal
Flask
python-oauth2
Bootstrap

Original version by Zacchaeus Bolaji

• https://twitter.com/djunehor
• https://github.com/djunehor

• Fork the project
• Pull to your local device
• Make your changes and push
• Create a Pull Request using this template