Created by Stephen McDonald

Babbler

A Twitter bot that polls an RSS feed and posts its entries as tweets, with auto-generated hashtags. For extra mischief, replies to the bot are responded to using a basic Eliza implementation.

After installing, the 'babbler' command will be available which you can use to run the bot. Data will be stored in the current directory.

Options

--version	show program's version number and exit
-h, --help	show this help message and exit

Required:

-u url, --feed-url=url
	RSS Feed URL

Optional:

-i strings, --ignore=strings
	Comma separated strings for ignoring feed entries if they contain any of the strings
-p seconds, --pause=seconds
	Seconds between RSS feed requests (default:600)
-q decimal, --queue-slice=decimal
	Decimal fraction of unposted tweets to send during each iteration between feed requests (default:0.3)
-l level, --log-level=level
	Level of information printed (ERROR|INFO|DEBUG) (default:INFO)
-m len, --hashtag-min-length=len
	Minimum length of a hashtag (default:3)

Switches:

-a, --append	Switch certain options into append mode where their values provided are appended to their persisted values, namely --ignore, --hashtag-min-length, --pause, --queue-slice
-s, --subtract	Opposite of --append
-e, --edit-data
	Load a Python shell for editing the data file
-f, --dry-run	Fake run that doesn't save data or post tweets
-d, --daemonize
	Run as a daemon
-k, --kill	Kill a previously started daemon
-D, --DESTROY	Deletes all saved data and tweets from Twitter

Twitter authentication (all required):

-w key, --consumer-key=key
	Twitter Consumer Key
-x secret, --consumer-secret=secret
	Twitter Consumer Secret
-y key, --access-token-key=key
	Twitter Access Token Key
-z secret, --access-token-secret=secret
	Twitter Access Token Secret

Options need only be provided once via command line as options specified are then persisted in the data file, and reused on subsequent runs. Required options can also be omitted as they will each then be prompted for individually.