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Try it yourself!
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@strawmanbot

Matthew Wang, Aatmik Mallya, Daniel Hsu, Michael Chung October 2020

Synopsis

Note: Sarcasm below

It's October, and voting is right around the corner. Voter turnout among the youth has always been an issue. A lot of the youth do not think politics applies to them, or they simply do not find it interesting.

@strawmanbot is a solution to make news more engaging and fun. It scans for tweets from news outlets and generate goofy mad-lib translations. It is also listening for @ mentions. We can translate your tweets too (See the Try It Yourself section)

Follow @strawmantest on Twitter for your #1 most entertaining news source!

Try It Yourself

Tag @strawmantest in one of your tweets. You can type anything. Tell us about your day! Talk about your favorite food! We will translate your tweet into a goofy mad-lib.

Note that due to API rate limiting, it may take up to 5 minutes for your tweet to process.

How we made it

@strawmanbot is written in a Python script hosted to run 24/7 on Google Cloud Compute instance. There are 4 components to the project. We chose to use Google Cloud Compute's Instance because it allowed us to run a python script 24/7 on a VM.

index.py. This is the main file of the project that pieces the other compoments together
twitter.py Uses tweepy API library to interact with our twitter account. It's functions include create tweet, scan for tweets, and scan for mentions
nlp.py Is a natural language processor using spacy.io library. We use nlp.py to detect part of speech in a tweet
wordlib.py contains all of the nouns, verbs, and adjectives we use to construct goofy sentences.

Due to rate limiting, the python script only does scans creates tweets every minute.