@Karlsruher

• is a robot on Twitter (Link)
• retweets mentions from its followers when they apply some rules

Setup instructions

Prerequisites:

• Python 3 environment (tested with 3.5 on Linux, 3.8.5 MacOS)
• The Robot needs a home directory for its work
• You need Twitter API credentials for your Robot

Install the latest release into your Python 3 library:

$ python3 -m pip install -U --user --pre karlsruher

Still in Beta mode: --pre and expect a moving target!

Create a home directory

You might want to use a different path here:

export ROBOT_HOME=$HOME/karlsruher
mkdir -p $ROBOT_HOME

Create auth.yaml credentials file

You want to enter your own credentials here:

export ROBOT_HOME=$HOME/karlsruher
cat >$ROBOT_HOME/auth.yaml <<EOF
# You must enter real credentials here:
twitter:
  consumer:
    key: 'YOUR-CONSUMER-KEY'
    secret: 'YOUR-CONSUMER-SECRET'
  access:"
    key: 'YOUR-ACCESS-KEY'
    secret: 'YOUR-ACCESS-SECRET'
EOF

Setup complete

First run

The Robot needs to fetch its followers and friends from Twitter regularly, run this initially and once per day:

export ROBOT_HOME=$HOME/karlsruher
karlsruher --home=$ROBOT_HOME -housekeeping

To just perfom the desired retweet feature, run this at any interval:

export ROBOT_HOME=$HOME/karlsruher
karlsruher --home=$ROBOT_HOME -retweet 

Crontab example:

*/5 * * * * karlsruher --home=ROBOT_HOME -retweet >>ROBOT_HOME/log 2>&1
3 3 * * *   karlsruher --home=ROBOT_HOME -housekeeping >>ROBOT_HOME/log 2>&1

Simple logfile rotation:

# cat /etc/logrotate.d/karlsruher
ROBOT_HOME/log {
        rotate 7
        daily
        compress
        missingok
        notifempty
}