DonaldsTweet

A twitter bot which predicts donald trumps next potential tweet

APIs Used:

• tweepy - a python library for the twitter API
• Documentation can be found here !

Setup for API:

• pip3 install tweepy - For python 3 and up
• pip install tweepy - For python 2 and under

NOTE:

• We assume you have installed pip3 or pip before hand on your device.
• Alternatively you could clone the tweepy repository from GitHub:

    git clone https;//github.com/tweepy/tweepy.git
    cd tweepy
    python setup.py install
  

• You will need to go here to get credentials requiered for your bot!

Usage of the API :

import tweepy

Credentials Required :

• Consumer Key
• Consumer Secret
• Access Token
• Access Token Secret

Authenticating Developer Account with tweepy

• Initialize your credentials:

  consumer_key = 'consumer key'
  consumer_secret = 'consumer secret'
  access_token = 'access token'
  access_token_secret = 'access token secret'
  

• Authentication:

  auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_key)
  auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
  api = tweepy.API(auth)
  

Functionality of the Bot :

• At the moment DonaldsTweet tweets a potential tweet which is generated based on the last 100 tweets from Donal Trump

Tweet Generation Model :

• We use the Markov Chain Model with a history of 2 words and make a markov tree based on the inputs.
• To generate a random tweet we select a random path from the root of the tree to the end, giving us a grammatically correct tweet.

A project by :

Clara Hong

&

Siddharth Gupta