Building Twitter Bots in Node Philip James @phildini Whos this - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Building Twitter Bots in Node Philip James @phildini Whos this - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Building Twitter Bots in Node Philip James @phildini Whos this guy? #nodetweets @phildini Why should you build twitter bots? do I #nodetweets @phildini What does a twitter bot need? Some bit of code, for posting to twitter Write
Who’s this guy?
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Why should you build twitter bots?
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do I
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What does a twitter bot need?
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- Some bit of code, for posting to twitter
- Write access to a twitter account
- A way to post responsively, or on a schedule
What are we going to do?
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Get a word from the Wordnik API Mix that word into a tweet Post that tweet to twitter
Let’s start coding!
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Let’s start coding!
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We need a key!
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https://www.wordnik.com
We need a key!
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http://developer.wordnik.com/
We need a key!
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https://www.wordnik.com/users/edit
We need a key!
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permissions.js
Let’s start coding!
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Add some twitter
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Twitter doesn’t like developers
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bots
Add some twitter
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Add some twitter
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config.js
Add some twitter
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Add some twitter
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Make it Run
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Where do we go from here?
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Go Forth and Bot!
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- Some bit of code, for posting to twitter
- Write access to a twitter account
- A way to post responsively, or on a schedule
Bots need: Bots are:
- Fun
- Hopefully straightforward
- Art
The World Needs Your Twitterbot!
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Credits
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Erin McKean (@emckean) Darius Kazemi (@tinysubversions)
I gave this talk - you can too!
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Thanks! Questions?
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