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Author: vueron

simple_twitter_bot.py

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+import random
+import tweepy
+
+consumer_key="type_your_key_here"
+consumer_secret="type_your_key_secret_here"
+access_token="type_your_token_here"
+access_token_secret="type_your_token_secret_here"
+
+filename="quote.txt" # a text file which contains quotes (one quote in each line)
+
+def file_read(filename):        # this function takes file name as input and returns list of string 
+    data_link=open(filename,"r")
+    dt = data_link.readlines()
+    for idx in range(len(dt)):
+        dt[idx] = dt[idx][:-1]  # this is used to remove \n
+    return dt
+
+def select_tweet(list_tweet):  # this function takes list of strings as input and then return a randomly selected element of input list
+    sz = len(list_tweet)
+    idx = random.randint(0,sz-1)  # sz-1 is used because index of list starts from 0 and goes to N-1 for N elements
+    msg = list_tweet[idx]
+    return msg
+
+def start(consumer_key,consumer_secret,access_token,access_token_secret,filename="quote.txt"): 
+    auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key,consumer_secret)                                   
+    auth.set_access_token(access_token,access_token_secret)
+    api = tweepy.API(auth,wait_on_rate_limit=True,wait_on_rate_limit_notify=True,compression=True)
+    file_data = file_read(filename)
+    msg=select_tweet(file_data)
+    api.update_status(msg)
+
+start(consumer_key,consumer_secret,access_token,access_token_secret,filename)