Resources for Twitterbots

• Twitter bots: Definitive guide
• Starter projects on Glitch🎏
• Browse bots

Tutorials¶

General¶

• How to Make a Twitter Bot: The Definitive Guide (by Stefan)
• Creative bots and accessibility (by Stefan)
• Twitter and Procedural Generation (by Joe Sondow)

node.js¶

• Botwiki on Glitch (by Stefan)
• Twitter Bot Tutorial – Node.js and Processing (by Daniel Shiffman)
• tracery-twitter-bot (by Byron Hulcher)
• Make a Twitter bot that tweets random images (by Stefan)
• Smarter & Cuter Bots (by Rachel White)

See also: Twitter bot project templates on Glitch

Python¶

• What is a Twitter bot? (by Molly White)
• How to create a Twitter bot (by Molly White)
• Build A Bot Workshop (by Terian Koscik)
• Making a bot that tweets a random image (by Stefan)
• Build and Deploy Twitter Bots with Python, Tweepy and PythonAnywhere (by Iyanuoluwa Ajao)
• How To Create a Twitterbot with Python 3 and the Tweepy Library (by Lisa Tagliaferri)
• Using Twitter bots for data visualization (by Stefan)
• Tutorial Creating a Twitter bot with Python, OAuth 2.0, and v2 of the Twitter API (by Jessica Garson)
• Noun Verb Bot (by Jessica Garson)
• Kickstart your Twitter bot with our Glitch example written in Python (by Jessica Garson)
• Five Steps To Build Your Own Random Non-Sequitur Twitter Bot (by Lauren Orsini)
• How to Code a Simple Twitter Bot for Complete Beginners (by Sarah Sahim)
• Coding a simple Twitter bot (by Anthony Gladman)
• Devs in the Details: How to Create a Twitter Bot (by Jessica Garson)
• How to Build a Twitter Text-Generating AI Bot With GPT-2 (by Max Woolf)

Never ceases to amaze, stun me that a significant number of the “people” on Twitter are programs.

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 10, 2017

Ruby¶

• Civ V Random Game Generator Twitterbot (by Katelyn Dinkgrave)
• Your Own @Horse_ebooks (by Josh Trommel)

Tracery/Cheap Bots Done Quick¶

Check out the dedicated Tracery page.

SSBot (Google Spreadsheets)¶

Tutorials that use Zach Whalen‘s Google Spreadsheets-to-Twitterbot tool.

• Tiny Flashing Thumbs (by Zach Whalen)
• Hook, bait and camouflage (by Nora Reed)
• How to make a Twitter Bot with Google Spreadsheets (by Zach Whalen)

Raspberry Pi¶

• Raspberry Pi Twitterbot (by Scott Kildall)
• How to build a nonsensical Twitterbot on the Raspberry Pi (by Emily King)
• Python + BeautifulSoup + Twitter + Raspberry Pi (by Robin Camille Davis)

Other languages¶

• Build Your Own Topic Bot (by Hatnote)
• How to Write a Twitter Bot in 5 Minutes (by Amit Agarwal)
• Tutorial on Python Twitter Bots (by @mcburton)
• How to Build a Law Bot (by David Colarusso)
• Tutorial on Creative Twitterbots (by Tony Veale)
• How I Built a Twitter Bot Using Auth0 Webtasks and Data.gov (by Auth0)
• Create a simple, free, text-driven Twitterbot with AWS Lambda & Node.js (by Erin McKean)
• Polyglot Twitter Bot (by Joel Grus)

• Twitter’s missing manual (by @eevee)
• Alt text support for Twitter Cards and the REST API (by @twitterdev)
• API support for 140 second video (by @twitterdev)
• Tweet Metadata Timeline (by Jim Moffitt)
• Emoji on Twitter (by Emojibase)

See also @twitterapi for updates on the Twitter API and the Twitter Developer Platform Roadmap Trello board.

Frameworks and libraries¶

Twitter API¶

node.js¶

• twit (by Tolga Tezel)

Python¶

• tweepy (by Tweepy)
• twython (by Ryan McGrath)
• twitterqa (by Pascal van Kooten)
• heroku_ebooks (by Tom Meagher)

Ruby¶

• chatterbot (by Colin Mitchell)
• twitter_ebooks (by Jaiden Mispy)
• rubybottools (by Brett O'Connor)

Java¶

• markov (by Joe Sondow)
• lambda-twitter-base (by Joe Sondow)

Other languages¶

• anaconda (by Aditya Mukerjee)
• twitterBot (by Matteo Redaelli)
• Literal Twitter Bot Kit (by BubbleSort Zines)

For more frameworks and libraries built for the Twitter platform, check out Twitter Libraries at developer.twitter.com.

Working with language¶

• markov-twitter-bot (by Mike Dettmer)
• twitter-text (by Twitter)

Python¶

• word-tools (by Hugo)
• twitter_markov (by Neil Freeman)

Working with images¶

Python¶

• randimgbot (by Hugo)
• spatchwork (by Bob Poekert)
• binary-numbers (by Ross Spencer)

Tools¶

See also: A list of Twitter-bot hosting platforms.

Python¶

• sycorax (by Leonard Richardson)

Other¶

• I Will Dance The OAuth Dance For You (by George Buckenham)
• Bot Auther (by Thomas Moore)

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