Twitter-IoT

Twitter bot connected to Internet of Things (IoT). The bot offer the following features:

• Retrieve tweets depending on configured text (with or without hashtags)
• Retweet found tweets
• Favorite found tweets
• Reply to found tweets
• Publish message to MQTT broker

All features are optional and can be easily enabled or disabled through a configuration file.

Installation

Twitter-iot is developed using node.js and mongodb. It has been tested on Ubuntu 15.04.

Follow the steps below to install twitter-iot on Ubuntu (the procedure is similar for other GNU/Linux distributions):

• Install node.js, npm and mongodb

sudo apt-get install nodejs
sudo apt-get install npm
sudo apt-get install mongodb

• Install the twitter-iot using npm

sudo npm install twitter-iot -g

• Go to https://apps.twitter.com/ and get consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token and access_token_secret for your new app
• Replace {prefix} with the corresponding path (usually /usr/local) and execute the following command to create config.json and after than edit the configurations in it:

cp {prefix}/lib/node_modules/twitter-iot/config-sample.json config.json

• Run twitter-iot To run the application once edit config.json, set infinite to false and run:

twitter-iot --config config.json

To run the application forever edit config.json, set infinite to true, set duration to 5 seconds or more and run:

forever /usr/local/bin/twitter-iot --config config.json

For more information type:

twitter-iot --help

License

The source code of twitter-iot is available under GPLv3 license. Please contribute changes to the project through GitHub pull requests.