Twitter Bot 🐦🤖

I had a backlog of book quotes stored in a text file that I wanted to share on Twitter, but I didn't want to manually copy and paste each one. Naturally, I decided to automate this task via the Twitter API. I used Python's Tweepy library to accomplish this.

Running the code

Download tweet_quote.py and quotes.txt files to the same directory. In tweet_quotes.py make sure to update lines 136-139 with your account credentials. Run python3 tweet_quote.py in the terminal. You'll be prompted for input. Type "tweet" to tweet the last quote stored in quotes.txt. You can also type "shuffle quotes", "add quote", or "exit".

If you wish to add your own quote, it must be in the following format: "Quote",Book Title,Book Author

Example

Say the last line in the text file was: "I hope your bacon burns.",Diana Wynne Jones,Howl's Moving Castle

Running the code would produce the following tweet:

Functions

• request_user_input() - type one of the following in the command line: "tweet", "shuffle quotes", "add quote", or "exit"
• shuffle_quotes() - shuffles quotes currently stored in text file (I sometimes do this after adding a lot of quotes from the same book)
• is_file_empty(lines) - takes lines as input and returns True if there are no lines (meaning quotes.txt is empty) and False otherwise
• add_quote() - requests quote information from user and adds it to the text file
• tweet_quote() - tweets last quote stored in quotes.txt file
• prepare_tweet(text) - helper function that creates appropriate hashtags from the book title and author's name