Elevator Pitch: This example uses the Twitter API to send Ravencoin assets/tokens to anyone who reply with their address.
Purely for educational purposes.
Brought to you by RavenRebels https://github.com/ravenrebels
Getting started video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZMrnjVQQzs
- register a developer account over at Twitter
- Setup a full Ravencoin node
- Download Node.js
- Checkout/Download the code
Register as developer at https://developer.twitter.com/
It takes some time to be approved
The node has to run in server mode, here is an example configuration
server=1
whitelist=127.0.0.1
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
txindex=1
addressindex=1
assetindex=1
timestampindex=1
dbcache=2048
# Username for JSON-RPC connections
rpcuser=notsharingthatone
# Password for JSON-RPC connections
rpcpassword=notsharingthatone
You need to have Node.js https://nodejs.org/en/ installed
You need to have git installed
To download the code run
git clone https://github.com/ravenrebels/twitterbot.git
In the "git cloned" directy, run
npm install
Create a file called CONFIG.json.
Example
{
"bearer": "FAKE_FAKE_AAAAAasdfasdfyMSAEAAAAABQasdfasdfeIasdfasdfDincauODaKCasdfasdffXkA3001KLcQUps02bAeasdfasdf4g",
"interval": 20,
"rpcUsername": "myVerySecretUsername",
"rpcPassword": "myMegaSecretPassword",
"rpcURL": "http://127.0.0.1:8766",
"RAVENCOIN_ASSET_NAME": "HOPIUM",
"scanMinutesBackInTime": 5,
"tweetId": "1111222233334444"
}
- scanMinutesBackInTime dictates how far back in time (history) in minutes Twitter should give us replies. 10 means give us all replies for the last 10 minutes. Try to keep this low because Twitter has a cap limit, how many tweets you can read.
- interval dictates how often (seconds) you want to check for new replies over at Twitter.
- bearer is your Twitter project/apps Bearer token
NOTE: we ask twitter every interval seconds to give us all the tweet/replies for the last scanMinutesBackInTime minutes. This affects your quota, performance cap over at Twitter. Twitter has a limit for about 500.000 reads per month. Try to keep scanMinutesBackInTime low.
- Your Ravencoin node should be up and running
- Publish a tweet, copy the id and add it to CONFIG.json under "tweetId"
Start the script, from the command prompt
node index