Trolling on Twitter with a Python bot

Slides of the workshop I conducted at T3chfest on February the 12th of 2016.
Carlos III University of Madrid

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1. Trolling on Twitter with a Python bot Carlos Edo @iamcarlosedo
2. Me • I’m Carlos Edo • Graduated from UC3M • Web developer at Ticketea • Github: Carlosedo • Twitter: @iamcarlosedo
3. Uses • MARKETING • Target topics • Target competence’s followers • COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT • Answer repetitive questions • Interact with users • JUST FOR FUN
4. The alot shepherd
5. Alot
6. A —> lot
16. Python
17. Installing python ON WINDOWS
18. https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/
19. Important While installing make sure to add python to Path
20. Open Powershell $ python
21. PIP • Package management system • Installs packages, libraries… • Usages: $ pip install django $ pip install -r requirements.txt $ pip freeze > requirements.txt
22. Installing pip
23. • Go to • https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py • Save the file • In Powershell, go to the directory where you saved the file • Run: $ python get-pip.py WINDOWS
24. $ sudo easy_install pip MAC
25. $ sudo apt-get install python-pip LINUX
26. VIRTUALENV • Tool to create isolated Python environments • Allows different library versions for different projects
27. Twitter
28. Twitter API • Provides programmatic access to read and write Twitter data • Docs: https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public • Important to check the limits and restrictions • We will use tweepy to interact with Twitter’s API
29. Create a Twitter account If you don’t have one already IMPORTANT: You must provide your phone number! Otherwise you won’t be able to create an app
30. • When you have your twitter account go to: • https://apps.twitter.com/ • Click on “Create new app”
31. • Fill in all the required data • Website must start with “http://”
32. • Under “Application settings”, click on “manage keys and access tokens”
33. • There you will have your “Consumer key” and “Consumer secret” that we will use in a few moments. • You also need to “Create your access token” • At the bottom of the screen
34. BOT
35. https://github.com/ carlosedo/alot-shepherd
36. Project setup $ mkdir <project-name> $ cd <project-name> $ touch keys.py $ touch bot.py
37. <project_name>/ keys.py bot.py
38. #keys.py keys = dict( consumer_key = ‘[CONSUMER KEY]’, consumer_secret = ‘[CONSUMER SECRET]’, access_token = ‘[ACCESS TOKEN]’, access_token_secret = ‘[ACCESS TOKEN SECRET]’, )
39. #bot.py import tweepy #from our keys module (keys.py), import the keys from keys import keys CONSUMER_KEY = keys['consumer_key'] CONSUMER_SECRET = keys['consumer_secret'] ACCESS_TOKEN = keys['access_token'] ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = keys['access_token_secret'] auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET) api = tweepy.API(auth) query = '"I am sad alot”' tweet_list = api.search( q=query, # frase to search count=20, # number of tweets to return lang=“en” # language to search (optional) ) for tweet in tweet_list: screen_name = tweet.user.screen_name message = ".@{username} {message}".format( username=screen_name, message=‘Alot confused, a lot not understand feelings’ ) try: api.update_status( status=message, in_reply_to_status_id=tweet.id ) print message except tweepy.TweepError as e: print e.message[0]['code'] print e.args[0][0]['code']
40. $ pip install tweepy
41. import tweepy #from our keys module (keys.py), import the keys from keys import keys CONSUMER_KEY = keys['consumer_key'] CONSUMER_SECRET = keys['consumer_secret'] ACCESS_TOKEN = keys['access_token'] ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET = keys['access_token_secret'] auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET) api = tweepy.API(auth)
42. query = ‘"I am sad alot”’ tweet_list = api.search( q=query, # phrase to search count=20, # number of tweets to return lang=“en” # language to search (optional) )
43. for tweet in tweet_list: screen_name = tweet.user.screen_name message = ".@{username} {message}".format( username=screen_name, message=‘Alot confused, a lot not understand feelings’ )
44. # same indentation as before try: api.update_status( status=message, in_reply_to_status_id=tweet.id ) print message except tweepy.TweepError as e: print e.message[0]['code'] print e.args[0][0]['code']
45. DEMO
46. Let’s build onto what we have
47. https://github.com/ carlosedo/alot-shepherd
48. [···] api = tweepy.API(auth) query = ‘"I am sad alot”’ ALOT_HERD = ( # ('"exact string to search"', 'tweet response') ('"alot of bacon"', 'You just summoned Alot of bacon!'), ('"alot of beer"', 'You just summoned Alot of beer!'), ('"alot of fire"', 'You just summoned Alot of fire!'), ('"alot of mist"', 'You just summoned Alot of mist!'), ('"alot of money"', 'You just summoned Alot of money!'), ) for alot in ALOT_HERD: query = alot[0] tweet_list = api.search(q=query, count=20, lang="en") tweet_list = api.search(q=query, count=5, lang=“en") [···]
49. for alot in ALOT_HERD: query = alot[0] tweet_list = api.search(q=query, count=5, lang=“en”) for tweet in tweet_list: screen_name = tweet.user.screen_name message = ".@{username} {message}".format( username=screen_name, message=alot[1] ) try: api.update_status( status=message, in_reply_to_status_id=tweet.id ) print message except tweepy.TweepError as e: print e.message[0]['code'] print e.args[0][0]['code']
50. heroku
52. CREATE ACCOUNT • Create a free account on heroku.com • Click on your email address (up and to the left of the screen) • Click on “Manage account” • Click “Billing” • Introduce credit card data (won’t be used)
53. https://toolbelt.heroku.com/
54. Upload to heroku $ git init $ git add . $ git commit -m “Add all files” $ heroku create —stack cedar $ git push heroku master
56. Add scheduler $ heroku run worker $ heroku addons:add scheduler:standard • Will say again that it’s paid, but it’s really free $ heroku addons:open scheduler
59. Thanks! @iamcarlosedo https://github.com/carlosedo/alot-shepherd
60. Let’s improve it! http://docs.tweepy.org/en/v3.5.0/