This is a suplementary page to the general Resources section. Also check out the Twitter bot tutorials and open source code for Twitter bots.

Twitterbot frameworks ¶

node.js ¶

• ttezel/twit: a very good and simple node.js twitterbot module

Python ¶

• tweepy/tweepy: "Twitter for Python!" (see also tweepy.github.com)
• ryanmcgrath/twython: Python wrapper for the Twitter API
• sixohsix/twitter: Python Twitter API
• bear/python-twitter: a Python wrapper around the Twitter API
• thricedotted/twitterbot: a Python framework for creating interactive Twitter bots
• hmason/botomatic: easily create twitter bots in Python
• swizzard/botmaster: making Twitter bots easier
• bgporter/nanobot: a tiny little Python twitterbot framework (see related blog post)
• kootenpv/twitterqa: a Deep learning-based chatbot

Ruby ¶

• muffinista/chatterbot: Ruby-based Twitter Bot Framework, using OAuth to authenticate
• mispy/twitter_ebooks: a framework for building interactive twitterbots which respond to mentions/DMs
• negatendo/rubybottools: a collection of tools for writing Twitter bots with Ruby

Java ¶

• joesondow/markov: a template for Markov chain Twitter bots
• [joesondow/lambda-twitter-base](https://github.com/joesondow/lambda-twitter-base: template project for building Twitter bots with Java and AWS Lambda

Other languages ¶

• ChimeraCoder/anaconda: Go client library for the Twitter API
• zhaytee/botville: a simple package for bootstrapping a Twitter bot in Go
• matteoredaelli/twitterBot: a simple Twitter bot written in Elixir
• StrongLoop-Evangelists/openwhisk-twitterbot-template: a blank template to use to make simple text-driven Twitterbots with OpenWhisk
• Literal Twitter Bot Kit (adafruit.com)

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

Language ¶

See also the Language section of Libraries and frameworks.

node.js ¶

• twitter-fanfiction-botnet: tool for setting up groups of ebooks bots that talk to one another
• tweet-packer: accepts an array of strings and appends them together into < 140 character tweets
• clean-this-tweet-up: removes all #s, usernames, phone numbers, addresses, emails, and urls from a given tweet

Python ¶

• hugovk/word-tools: a collection of tools/mini-bots that do various language-related things, used by @favibot, @lovihatibot and @nixibot
• fitnr/twitter_markov: create Markov chain ("_ebooks") accounts
• lydianchord/tracery-markov-model-maker: Tracery-format Markov models for Twitter bots

Working with images ¶

Python ¶

• hugovk/randimgbot: an example of a bot that picks a random image and posts it, used by @FlagFacts
• bobpoekert/spatchwork: segmentation-based image filter ("patchwork" effect)

Tools, other ¶

• twitter/twitter-text: a collection of libraries and conformance tests to standardize parsing of tweet text

node.js ¶

• mkproj: tool for scaffolding node.js projects, includes an option for generating twitter bot boilerplate using the ttezel/twit module.
• filtered-followback: make your bot automatically follow people back, as long as they don't appear to be a malicious spam bot.

Python ¶

• OpenFuego: "watching Twitter all day—so you don’t have to"
• araile/python-botutil: small libraries for Python botmakers
• leonardr/sycorax: "a Twitter client that choreographs the online behavior of fictional characters", read more on crummy.com
• tdhopper/tau: a template for creating a Twitter bot with AWS Lambda

Unsorted ¶

• cheapbotsdonequick.com: "This site will help you make a Twitterbot!" (see examples of bots created with CBDQ)
• A big list of bot-making resources (Nora Reed via medium.com)
• Tracery Writer: a tool that lets you write bots for CBDQ
• Twitter key formatter: a tool by @colewillsea, see the GitHub repo for instructions
• I Will Dance The OAuth Dance For You: a tool to help obtain oauth credentials for an account
• MikeNGarrett/twitter-blacklist: "100,000+ twitter account ids that are total crap, spam, or bots"
• a Perl command line client
• Twitter Natural Language Processing: tokenizer, a part-of-speech tagger, hierarchical word clusters, and a dependency parser for tweets, along with annotated corpora and web-based annotation tools
• dariusk/grunt-init-twitter-bot: a grunt init template for making Twitter bots

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

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 10, 2017

See also:

• @tullyhansen's collection of links on bots and bot making
• bothub.org: various links for Twitter bot makers
• botpad.org: same as above, but the site is often inaccessible

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