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A simple bot that manually retweets haikus directed at it.
Uses the Twitter gem.
You will need to provide the appropriate API tokens.
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| require 'rubygems' | |
| require 'twitter' | |
| require 'time' | |
| @blacklist = [] | |
| def log text | |
| @logfile.write( "\r\n" + Time.new.to_s + ": " + text.to_s()) | |
| end | |
| @logfile = File.new('haiku_log.txt', "a") | |
| log("starting!") | |
| regex_url = /((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((\/\/)|(\\\\))[\w\d:#%\/;$()~_?\+\-=\\\.&]*)/i | |
| def get_last_response_time | |
| last_time = nil | |
| begin | |
| f = File.new('haiku_last_response_time.txt', "r") | |
| last_time = Time.parse(f.read) | |
| f.close | |
| rescue | |
| #just don't choke | |
| end | |
| last_time | |
| end | |
| def set_last_response_time last_time | |
| #no error handling because we want it to succeed | |
| f = File.new('haiku_last_response_time.txt', "w") | |
| f.write(last_time.to_s) | |
| f.close | |
| end | |
| Twitter.configure do |config| | |
| config.consumer_key = 'CONSUMER_KEY' | |
| config.consumer_secret = 'CONSUMER_SECRET' | |
| config.oauth_token = 'OAUTH_TOKEN' | |
| config.oauth_token_secret = 'OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET' | |
| end | |
| last_reply_response = get_last_response_time() | |
| #puts "last response time: #{last_reply_response}" | |
| #while true | |
| #puts Time.new.to_s + ": Getting replies..." | |
| begin | |
| replies = Twitter.mentions | |
| rescue Exception => err | |
| puts err | |
| log(err) | |
| exit | |
| end | |
| #get relevant replies | |
| replies.reverse! | |
| replies.reject!{|reply| reply.created_at <= last_reply_response } if last_reply_response | |
| #puts "...got #{replies.length} replies." | |
| last_time = nil | |
| replies.each do |reply| | |
| shouldtweet = true | |
| # log(reply) | |
| #check if user is blacklisted. | |
| if (@blacklist.member? reply.user.screen_name.downcase) then | |
| shouldtweet = false | |
| end | |
| # check if tweet is a mention - not for retweeting | |
| # use \A instead of ^ - some tricky bots use line breaks inside tweets. | |
| # http://www.regular-expressions.info/anchors.html#az | |
| if (reply.text.strip =~ /\A@haikutime/i).nil? then | |
| shouldtweet = false | |
| end | |
| #If shouldn't tweet, skip the retweeting, but still mark this as the last response (so we don't have to deal with it again). | |
| if (shouldtweet) then | |
| #remove any mentions (including mention of "@haikutime"), remove any hashtags | |
| log("about to tweet: " + reply.text) | |
| replytext = "from @" + reply.user.screen_name + ":" + (reply.text.gsub(/@\w+/i, "")).gsub(/#\w+/i,"").gsub(regex_url, "") | |
| log("cleaned tweet: " + replytext) | |
| begin | |
| Twitter.update(replytext) | |
| rescue Exception => err2 | |
| puts err2 | |
| log(err2) | |
| sleep 60 | |
| next | |
| end | |
| end | |
| #puts "posted response: #{replytext} " | |
| last_time = reply.created_at | |
| end | |
| if last_time | |
| set_last_response_time(last_time) | |
| last_reply_response = last_time | |
| end | |
| @logfile.close |
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I had an SSL issue on my computer, solved using:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/16134586/359362