A Twitter Bot that regularly tweets the current top posts from the EA Forum

This bot monitors the effective altruism forum and continuosly tweets that reached 40 karma within the first 6 days of publication.

Running the bot

• clone this repository by running git clone https://github.com/nikosbosse/ea-forum-bot
• create a virtual python environment python -m venv env and activate it source env/bin/activate
• install dependencies pip install -r requirements.txt
• setup a new Twitter account and developer account. Instructions from a similar project here. Store your credentials in a file called .env
• make a tweet by running python main.py

The bot is deployed to google servers. Some instructions on how to do that here

Update 2023-05-24:

This repo was forked from Nikos' original to get it working again. The bot is currently (2023-05-24) running as a google cloud function in my (Will Howard's) account. The changes made to get it working were roughly:

• Updating the classes which are selected on in fetch_relevant_posts (these had changed due to the forum being redesigned)
• Switching to using v2 of the twitter API rather than v1.1 (v1.1 appears to have been deprecated for new users, or at least I couldn't get it to work)
• Changing the name of the project in deploy.sh and schedule.sh to match what was in my Google Cloud account