Building Twitter Bots in NodePhilip James@phildini

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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