Twitter Bot

Do not pay attention to the appearance, in this project it does not matter (in the beginning, the whole program was to be console anyway), but maybe I will improve it.

A tool for automatic posting on Twitter at set intervals.

I set a goal that this program can be used with as little configuration as possible, and without the need to install a ton of other programs. As such, this program only requires Node, nor does it use a database (not counting Web Storage).

Setup

Prerequisites:

• Node ^18.6.0
• Twitter Developer Portal

Before you start, copy the .env.example file located in both the api and client directories and name them .env.

Create an application on the Twitter Developer Portal.

In the User authentication settings section, enable OAuth 2.0.

Set Type of App as Automated App or Bot.

Set Callback URI / Redirect URL as http://127.0.0.1:8000/callback (port you can change to whatever you want).

Set the Website URL to anything.

Save Client ID and Client Secret in .env file located ./api/.env (If you changed the port in the earlier section, you must also change it in both .env. files).

The first bot launch.

To run the API for the first time, use in the terminal:

> cd .\api\
> npm i
> npm run dev

To run the client for the first time, use in the terminal:

> cd .\client\
> npm i
> npm start

Each time you run bot again, you don't have to use npm i.

Now when you go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser (if you changed the port, use it instead of 8000), you should see what to do next.

[Optional] Changing the time a bot posts on Twitter.

You can change the time in the .env file located in ./client/.env.

Importing JSON files.

The program supports importing JSON files. The file must not exceed 5MB and must consist of an appropriate structure:

Each member of the array corresponds to another line of text.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "data": ["Lorem ipsum", "dolor sit amet."],
      "count": 0
    },
    {
      "data": ["Lorem ipsum."],
      "count": 0
    }
  ]
}