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
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.)
Tools and other resources¶
Mastodon¶
Twitter¶
Twine¶
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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