haiku-tweets

Identify haiku on Twitter and post them

Twitter setup:

1. Refer to ./config.json.template to create your ./config.json
2. Create a Twitter account for your bot, follow the accounts you're interested in
3. Create an app on Twitter to get your API keys
4. Save your API keys and account name in ./config.json

AWS setup:

1. Create an S3 bucket for your bot (this is used to store your last seen tweetId)
2. Create access keys for your AWS account
3. Save your access keys and S3 bucket config in ./config.json

Steps to deploy to AWS Lambda:

1. Run npm run build in the project root
2. Create a Lambda function, upload dist.zip from the previous step, and input lambda.myHandler as the handler
3. Set up a CloudWatch rule for your bot's update interval (ex: 10 minutes)

Deploy to your Lambda from the CLI

1. Run npm run build in the project root
2. Install and configure the AWS Command Line Interface
3. From your project root:

aws lambda update-function-code \
  --function-name YOUR_LAMBDA \
  --zip-file fileb://./dist.zip

Common problems:

My bot is retweeting its own tweets

Your account name in ./config.json should be preventing this, check for typos.

Replies sometimes include the parent user's username

A tweet's text will include the parent's username if the parent and child are different users.

Example accounts using this code:

• https://twitter.com/WaypointHaiku
• https://twitter.com/GiantbombHaiku
• https://twitter.com/McelroyHaiku
• https://twitter.com/PolygonHaiku