Making A Twitter Bot

1. Create a twitter account
2. Create an app in your developer page. You need to connect a phone number. You can get a free Google voice or Twilio number.
3. Enter an app name, description, and website. Leave the “callback” field blank.
4. Go to Keys and Access Tokens to get your Consumer Key (API Key) and Consumer Secret (API Secret)
5. Click to Generate Access Token for your Access Token and Access Token Secret

Authenticate with Twit

1.

npm install Twit --save

2.

Put your keys in a private config.js file.

//config.js
module.exports = {
  consumer_key:         'YOURCONSUMERKEY',
  consumer_secret:      'YOURCONSUMERSECRET',
  access_token:         'YOURACCESSTOKEN',
  access_token_secret:  'YOURACCESSTOKENSECRET'
}

3. //This will be our main JS file //main.js

1. Access Twit and your config.js with the require command.

//use Twit node package
let Twit = require('twit');
//use our config.js file
let config = require('./config.js');

//make a Twit object to connect to the API
var T = new Twit(config);

// Start once
tweeter(); //this function is defined in the twit module

// Once every N milliseconds
setInterval(tweeter, 60*5*1000);

// Here is the bot!
function tweeter() {

name = ["Lee", "Brian", "Joseph", "Ben", "Matthew", "J", "Mohammed"];

let tweet = "I pick "+name[Math.floor((Math.random() * name.length))];

//post the tweet
T.post('statuses/update', {
  status: tweet
}, tweeted);

//callback when Tweet is sent.
function tweeted(err, data response) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log('Success: '+data.text);
  }
 };
}