scienceBot 0.1.1

Twitter bot for sci-com and policy-com

ViewsOnDrugsBot

A bot application sharing scientific publications and educated opinions on psychedelic research, harm reduction and drug policy issues. A collaboration with: #mybrainmychoice

What it does:

• Reads and parses a list of RSS feeds (i.e. PubMed) Tweets an article's title, link, abstract, and authors as a 5/5 thread :thread:.
• Retweets older RSS post after a given time.
• Retweets the most retweeted and up-voted post from:
  • a global search for specified keywords or hashtags defined on Settings.add_hashtag.
  • a search result from a given distribution Twitter list defined on Settings.mylist_id.
• Interacts with users by faving posts from the above.
• Schedule jobs for any of the above.
• Send automated debug reports via Telegram.

All functions can be used independently.

Install

0. Download or git clone Twitterbot:
   • git clone https://github.com/franasal/science_bot.git
1. Run:
   • cd scibot
   • pip install . --user
2. Create a Twitter application, and generate keys, tokens etc.
3. Create a Telegram bot for post and debugging notifications.
4. Modify the settings in the source code.
   • Modify feed_urls list to add the RSS feeds of your choice. Here you can find a description on how to set an RSS search.
   • Modify the variables in the example.env file and add keys, tokens etc. for connecting to your Twitter app and save it as .env in your home directory.
   • Modify retweet_include_words for keywords you want to search and retweet, and retweet_exclude_words for keywords you would like to exclude from retweeting. For example retweet_include_words = ["foo"] and retweet_exclude_words = ["bar"] will include any tweet with the word "foo", as long as the word "bar" is absent. This list can also be left empty, i.e. retweet_exclude_words = [].
   • Modify or add jobs to the scheduled_job() function.

Requirements

• Python 3+
• Twitter account
• Telegram account

Usage

Read the RSS feeds and post a thread to Twitter account:

$ scibot rss

Search globally for tweets and retweet them:

$ scibot rtg

Search for tweets within a Twitter list and retweet them:

$ scibot rtl

Retweet last own tweet:

$ scibot rto

Deploy:

Here you can learn how set-up tasks for the the scheduled_job() function

There are some good free cloud solutions such as pythonanywhere, where you can deploy the bot, to do that just run:

$ scibot sch

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