A Python bot that automates several actions on Twitter, such as following users , favoriting tweets, replying to tweet mentions and following back followers

You can install the Twitter Follow Bot using pip:

pip install TwitterFollowBot
pip install autoreply
pip install like & retweet
pip install follow followers
pip install streaming tweets

You will need to install Python's python-twitter library:

pip install twitter
pip install tweepy

Although this library should be installed along with the Twitter Follow Bot if you used pip.

You will also need to create an app account on https://dev.twitter.com/apps

1. Sign in with your Twitter account
2. Create a new app account
3. Modify the settings for that app account to allow read & write
4. Generate a new OAuth token with those permissions

Before running the bot, you must first set it up so it can connect to the Twitter API. Create a config.txt file and fill in the following information:

OAUTH_TOKEN:
OAUTH_SECRET:
CONSUMER_KEY:
CONSUMER_SECRET:
TWITTER_HANDLE:
ALREADY_FOLLOWED_FILE:already-followed.txt
FOLLOWERS_FILE:followers.txt
FOLLOWS_FILE:following.txt
USERS_KEEP_FOLLOWING:
USERS_KEEP_UNMUTED:
USERS_KEEP_MUTED:
FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MIN_SECONDS:10
FOLLOW_BACKOFF_MAX_SECONDS:60

OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_SECRET, CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET are your API keys that you received from creating your app account. TWITTER_HANDLE is your Twitter name, case-sensitive.

You can change the FILE entries if you want to store that information in a specific location on your computer. By default, the files will be created in your current directory.

Add comma-separated Twitter user IDs to the USERS_KEEP entries to:

• USERS_KEEP_FOLLOWING: Keep following these users even if they don't follow you back.

• USERS_KEEP_UNMUTED: Keep these users unmuted (i.e., you receive a mobile notification when they tweet)

• USERS_KEEP_MUTED: Keep these users muted (i.e., you don't receive a mobile notification when they tweet)

Due to Twitter API rate limiting, the bot must maintain a local cache of all of your followers so it doesn't use all of your API time looking up your followers. It is highly recommended to sync the bot's local cache daily:

from TwitterFollowBot import TwitterBot

my_bot = TwitterBot()
my_bot.sync_follows()

The bot will create cache files where you specified in the configuration file.

DO NOT delete the cache files ("followers.txt", "follows.txt", and "already-followed.txt" by default) unless you want to start the bot over with a fresh cache.