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# boodoo_ebooks
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A turn-key, beginner-friendly, ready-to-deploy implementation of a traditional \_ebooks bot using Mispy's [twitter_ebooks](https://github.com/mispy/twitter_ebooks) library.
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## Usage
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Create your [Twitter app](https://apps.twitter.com) and generate access tokens with *Read, Write and Direct Messages* privileges.
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[](https://heroku.com/deploy?template=https://github.com/BooDoo/ebooks_example/tree/deploy)
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Put your BOT_NAME, SOURCE_USERNAME, and API secrets into Heroku Config Vars using the web dashboard.
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Scale your app to 1 dyno using the Heroku web dashboard.
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Bob's your uncle.
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## Default Behavior
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Tweets once on startup.
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Has 80% chance of tweeting every 2 hours.
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Responds to mentions/DMs
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Favorites tweets that it likes.
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## Special Features
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- **BLACKLIST**: accounts to not interact with
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- **BANNED_TERMS**: words or phrases to obscure/censor
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- DM commands (tweet, follow, unfollow, block, mention...)
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- Follower parity (periodically compares following/followers and follows/unfollows as needed)
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- Want something else? Create an [issue](https://github.com/BooDoo/ebooks_example/issues). No promises.
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## TODO:
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- Support full archive (via CSV uploaded elsewhere)
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# DISCLAIMER:
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I'm making this because I wrote a two-part tutorial for an older version of the twitter_ebooks gem and my mentions turned into a tech support hellscape for months.
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Please [create issues](https://github.com/BooDoo/ebooks_example/issues) if you have trouble. 🙏 Please do not tweet at me. 🙏
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