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 Kate Compton)

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 Ahmedzai)
• Designing Little Bots With Big Character (by Kate Compton)
• An Introduction to Twitterbots with Tracery (by Shawn Graham)
• Pizza maker: A Tutorial on Building Twitterbots (by Tony Veale)

Bots made with Tracery

Tools and other resources¶

Mastodon¶

• Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet! (by BooDoo)

Twitter¶

• Cheap Bots, Done Quick! (by George Buckenham)
• tracery-twitter-bot (by Byron Hulcher)

Twine¶

• Tracery to Twine (by Vin)
• Twinecery (by Matthew R.F. Balousek)

General¶

• Tracery Writer (by Beau Gunderson)
• Bother (by Greg Borenstein)
• Tracery editor (by Kate Compton)
• Mark’s MetaArtbot (by Mark Gritter)
• Cheap Markovs, Traced Quick! (by Serin Delaunay)
• TraceElements (by PROSECCO Network)

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