Enforce OOP style of code

[ananyo2012]

You may be thinking why I am insisting OOP style in such a small script. So I start off answering the question

Why OOP ?

One of the reason I am proposing OOP is to keep the code more readable and maintainable, but the most important one is to implement Option parser.

Currently the script does 3 things

1. Follows 100 followers of the user (optional can be disabled by --no-follow flag)
   2, Retweets and Likes the tweet
2. Retweet with comment (optional can be disabled by --no-comment flag)
3. Follow the user who made the tweet (optional can be disabled by --no-friendship flag)

Since we intend volunteers to use this as well, we should make everything optional since it is upto the user if he/she wants to follow a particular person or retweet with a comment. We should give the flexibility of usage.

Making the script Object Oriented is the first step towards making the code more modular.

How to implement OOP in this script ?

Just make a class named ReTweeter and move the above 4 things in separate methods. The class will look like

class ReTweeter:
  def __init__(self):
    auth= tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
    auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
    self.api = tweepy.API(auth)

  def follow(self):
    pass

  def retweet(self):
    pass

  def retweet_with_comment(self):
    pass

  def make_friend(self):
    pass

def main():
  retweeeter = ReTweeter()
  retweeter.follow()
  retweeter.retweet()
  ...

Note: You don't have to use the same structure. I am just proposing an initial template

[Rohithgilla12]

Yeah, please check the OOP branch

[inovizz]

I'm good w/ making script modular by using OOP but looks like @ananyo2012 you were not clear on the requirements when you wrote this, I guess by the discussion we had on discord yesterday cleared the requirements.

@Rohithgilla12 @vipulgupta2048 - please refer to the discord discussion as well in case you have any doubts.

So here is what we need to do -

1. PyConIndia Generic bot -
   Let that bot do whatever it is doing right now but change the structure of the code to OOP and make it re-usable as @ananyo2012 suggests.

2. Volunteer Specific bot -
   Since above code would be in OOP so it can be re-used and configured for a specific volunteer to do the following:

• A volunteer can set his/her twitter auth credentials
• Bot Likes every tweet for @pyconindia[only] twitter handle
• Bot retweets every @pyconindia tweet with comment - "#PyConIndia, #PyConIndia2018, #CFP, #Tickets, #PyCon, #Python"

Note - Use this module for argument parsing.

[Rohithgilla12]

Okay Sanchit will work on it :)

[joybh98]

Is anyone working on this