Tracery

Tutorials¶

Tutorials and tools for Tracery, a super-simple tool and language to generate text, by Dr. Kate Compton. Perfect for making fun online bots with tools like Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! and Cheap Bots, Done Quick!

General

• Tracery tutorial (by botwiki)

See also: Bots made with Tracery

Twitter bots

These tutorials were written for Twitter bots, but you should be able to easily follow along with Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! for Mastodon. (Here’s a quick guide for setting up Mastodon bots.)

• Making twitter bots using Cheap Bots, Done Quick! (by derek)
• Designing Little Bots With Big Character (by botwiki)
• An Introduction to Twitterbots with Tracery (by botwiki)
• Pizza maker: A Tutorial on Building Twitterbots (by botwiki)

Bots made with Tracery

Tools and other resources¶

Mastodon¶

• Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! (by botwiki)

Twitter¶

• Cheap Bots, Done Quick! (by botwiki)
• tracery-twitter-bot (by byronhulcher)

Twine¶

• Tracery to Twine (by botwiki)
• Twinecery (by botwiki)

General¶

• Tracery Writer (by botwiki)
• Bother (by botwiki)
• Tracery editor (by botwiki)
• Mark’s MetaArtbot (by botwiki)
• Cheap Markovs, Traced Quick! (by Serin Delaunay)
• TraceElements (by botwiki)

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