Author: Wilson Giese - [email protected]

A Twitter bot that will query for specified terms and respond the the tweets using the Twitter REST API.

To run this application several things need to be defined in a config file. Example config.json:

{
	"min_time_between_cycles":180000,
	"max_time_between_cycles":3000000,
	"max_tweets_per_cycle":1,

	"consumer_key":"YOUR CONSUMER KEY",
	"consumer_secret":"YOUR CONSUMER SECRET",
	"access_token":"YOUR ACCESS TOKEN",
	"access_token_secret":"YOUR ACCESS TOKEN SECRET",

	"queries":   ["I like rain", "I like thunder"], 
	"responses": ["You're welcome.", "I'm glad you like it.",  
					      "Just doing my job, no need to thank me."]
}

The above example is a config file for my test bot; The Zeus Bot(OAuth keys excluded).

• min/max_min_time_between_cycles: This variable is the time in milliseconds that the bot will wait to run another cycle. The time is chosen randomly for each cycle.
• max_tweets_per_cycle: This variable is the maximum number of tweets posted per cycle.
• consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token, & access_token_secret: These are the OAuth keys used to post to twitter using the REST API. These keys are given by Twitter and should remain a secret. Consumer keys are for the application itself, and access keys are for the twitter account that will post the "tweets".
• queries: An array of strings that will be used to query Twitter.
• responses: An array of string that will be used to respond to matching queries.

java -cp TwitterBot.jar Bot

You can run the program with the normal class files, but you'll need to link all the libraries.

json-simple-1.1.1, signpost-core-1.2.1.2, commons-codec-1.7

This bot was not created as a spam or advertisement bot, just as a way to explore the Twitter, OAuth, and JSON API's. That said, you can use or modify the code as you see fit.