Daily Capybara Bot

A Twitter bot that tweets a gif of a capybara every 24 hours.

Twitter: @capyenjoyerbot

How it works

The bot is written in Python and uses the Tweepy library to interact with the Twitter API. The bot extracts a random GIF with the hashtag " capybaras" from Giphy and tweets it/messages it to every follower every 24 hours.

Running the bot locally

1. Clone the repository

2. Create a virtual environment and install the dependencies fromn the requirements.txt file

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create a Twitter developer account and create a new app here

4. Generate the necessery keys and tokens for the app

5. Apply for elevated access to the Twitter API

6. Create a Giphy developer account and create a new app here

7. Generate the GIPHY SDK key for the app

8. Create a .env file with the following environment variables

   API_KEY="your_api_key"

   API_SECRET_KEY="your_api_secret_key"

   ACCESS="your_access_token"

   ACCESS_SECRET="your_access_secret_token"

   GIPHY_KEY="your_giphy_key"

9. Run the main.py file

   python main.py

Automation

The bot is automated using GitHub Actions. The workflow is triggered every time a commit is pushed to the repository or at 9AM everyday.

Author

Darren Le