Inspiration
Daniel Shiffman is a youtuber that discusses interesting computer science projects. He talked about a twitter bot and after hearing about it, our group was fixated on creating one.
What it does
It tweets from terminal on intervals. It can tweet at someone when they follow you.
How we built it
We accessed the twitter API and dev.twitter.com and combined it with twilio and a package called node.js to create our bot.
Challenges we ran into
Accessing the twitter API and figuring out what we needed and what we did not.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud that our bot is currently tweeting on intervals and is able to tweet random numbers.
What we learned
API's are difficult to navigate.
What's next for MicroHacksBot
Responding to tweets that our followers send. That would just involve examining strings, which is a code that we have written already. A possibility is to combine the Giphy API and tweet gifs at people following the strings they tweet.
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