Auto-Reply Tweets in Twitter (bot) in simple way or tools? - twitter

Question

is any possible & simple way to make a twitter bot that will reply to some tweets (depend on search terms) in certain time interval. can anyone help me.
for example twitter.com/shastribot
Thanks

Answer 1

If you like Ruby, then I suggest using the Twitter gem: https://github.com/jnunemaker/twitter
It makes things very easy.
You could then write a script that checks whether there are any replies to the bot and if there are any new ones sends out a message. Then set it up as a cron job running as often as you think is necessary.
There's also the Twitter Bot interface to Twitter, I haven't used it myself but might be worth a look: http://integrum.rubyforge.org/twitter_bot/

Answer 2

You should try tweebot. It's python micro framework for twitter bots. This lib provides built-in blocks (like Filters, Selectors and Actions) that you can combine to achieve your requirements. For example, next code demonstrates how-to create canonical implementation of "retweet" bot (more examples).
# Next code demonstrates how to create simple twitter bot that select all
# friends' tweets with your mentiones and retweet they.
import tweebot as twb
def main():
# Step 1. setup context configuration
repeater = twb.Context({
'app_name' : 'repeater',
'username' : '<YOUR ACCOUNT NAME>',
'consumer_key' : '<YOUR CONSUMER KEY>',
'consumer_secret' : '<YOUR CONSUMER SECRET>',
'access_key' : '<YOUR ACCESS KEY>',
'access_secret' : '<YOUR ACCESS SECRET>',
'timeout' : 10 * 60, # 10 min, ensure twitter api limits
'history_file' : 'history.json', # don't repeat answered tweets
})
# Step 2. enable pretty logging (stdout by default)
twb.enable_logging(repeater)
# Step 3. setup chain Selector->Filters->Action
chain = (
# Select recently tweets with current user mentions.
twb.SearchMentions(),
# Apply several filters to selected tweets:
twb.MultiPart.And(
# exclude answered, blocked and own tweets
twb.BaseFilter,
# then leave only friends tweets (friends list will be cached)
twb.UsersFilter.Friends(),
# and finally, exclude tweets with invalid content
twb.BadTweetFilter),
# And now, retweet remain tweets
twb.ReplyRetweet)
# Step 4. start processing
repeater.start_forever(*chain)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

Answer 3

Ruby's twitter gem is a very good one. You can make use of twitter API to see the available methods.
You can start with a Twitter::REST::Client like following:
twitter_client = Twitter::REST::Client.new do |config|
config.consumer_key = "YOUR_CONSUMER_KEY"
config.consumer_secret = "YOUR_CONSUMER_SECRET"
config.access_token = "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
config.access_token_secret = "YOUR_ACCESS_SECRET"
end
Then you can you use your twitter_client for various purpose. For example you can post a tweet to your profile using this:
twitter_client.update("I am posting this tweet from my Ruby program")
You can get a list of all tweets by providing the twitter username like this:
twitter_client.user_timeline("YOUR_TWITTER_USER_NAME").each do |tweet|
puts tweet.text
end
For searching for tweets, take a look at this.