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.)
Tools and other resources¶
Mastodon¶
Twitter¶
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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