Twitter Bot for Auto-Favoriting and Retweeting Tweets
The Twitter bot, written with Google Apps Script, will auto-favorite and retweet tweets every few minutes. Do include the Twitter API library in your Google Scripts project as discussed in the previous tutorial on creating Twitter bots.
// Written by Amit Agarwal @labnol on 31/07/2015
// Fill the Twitter Keys and then choose Run -> Start Bot
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY = '123';
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET = '123';
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN = '123';
TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET = '123';
TWITTER_SEARCH_PHRASE = 'filter:links labnol.org';
function Start_Bot() {
var props = PropertiesService.getScriptProperties();
props.setProperties({
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY: TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY,
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET: TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET,
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN: TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN,
TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET: TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET,
SINCE_TWITTER_ID: 0,
});
var twit = new Twitter.OAuth(props);
// Test Twitter authorization
if (!twit.favorite('628053456071192576')) {
throw new Error('Please check your Twitter access tokens');
return;
}
ScriptApp.newTrigger('labnol_twitterBot').timeBased().everyMinutes(10).create();
}
function labnol_twitterBot() {
try {
var props = PropertiesService.getScriptProperties(),
twit = new Twitter.OAuth(props);
if (twit.hasAccess()) {
var tweets = twit.fetchTweets(
TWITTER_SEARCH_PHRASE,
function (tweet) {
// Skip tweets that contain sensitive content
if (!tweet.possibly_sensitive) {
return tweet.id_str;
}
},
{
multi: true,
lang: 'en', // Process only English tweets
count: 5, // Process 5 tweets in a batch
since_id: props.getProperty('SINCE_TWITTER_ID'),
}
);
if (tweets) {
props.setProperty('SINCE_TWITTER_ID', tweets[0]);
for (var i = tweets.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
twit.retweet(tweets[i]);
twit.favorite(tweets[i]);
/* Wait between 10 seconds and 1 minute */
Utilities.sleep(Math.floor(Math.random() * 50000) + 10000);
}
}
}
} catch (f) {
Logger.log('Error: ' + f.toString());
}
}
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Amit Agarwal
Google Developer Expert, Google Cloud Champion
Amit Agarwal is a Google Developer Expert in Google Workspace and Google Apps Script. He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science (I.I.T.) and is the first professional blogger in India.
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