Checked that the program runs correctly on Unix-based OS (Mac and Linux).

Author: yasulab

README

@@ -4,29 +4,31 @@ This bot runs in the following ways.
 
 2. Re-tweet the tweets.
 
-In example, 'search_term' is 'Cafe Miyama',
+In this example, 'search_term' is 'Cafe Miyama',
 and you can see how it behaves by checking the following account.
 
 http://twitter.com/cafemiyamabot
 
 
-HOW TO SETUP (work in progress):
+HOW TO SETUP:
 1. Register your OAuth client on Twitter
 URL: http://twitter.com/oauth_clients
-* you MUST choose 'client' for Simple Twitter Bot.
+NOTE: You MUST change permission settings to "Read & Write" if you wanna update via API.
+      The default is "Read Only".
 
 2. Run 'python register_pin.py' and
    use CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET you got from the registeration.
+NOTE: Make sure you are now signing in Twitter as your Bot account when visiting a given URL.
 
-3. Change setting variables(e.g. CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET) in main.py
+3. Change setting variables (CONSUMER_KEY and CONSUMER_SECRET) in main.py to the given ones.
 
 4. Run Google App Engine dev_server and visit the following URL
 URL: http://localhost:8080/cron/update
-* If you finish all of your setting, set debug_flag in main.py off.
+* If you finish all of your setting, set 'debug_flag' in main.py off.
 
 5. Done!
 
 Enjoy developing your own twitter bot!
 
-Yohei Yasukawa
+YasuLab
 [email protected]

main.py

@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
 #debug_flag = True
 debug_flag = False
 MAX_LEN = 140
-SEARCH_TERM = u'"Cafe Miyama" OR カフェミヤマ'
+SEARCH_TERM = u'Cafe Miyama'
 CONSUMER_KEY    = "???"
 CONSUMER_SECRET = "???"
 KEY_FILE_API    = "api_key.dat"
-KEY_FILE_TWITTER = "twitter_key.dat"
+
 BOT_USERNAME = "CafeMiyamaBot"
-BOT_PASSWORD = "???"
+
 
 def oauth_twitter():
    access_token = pickle.load(file(KEY_FILE_API))
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def twitter_api_init_gae(self,
    self._input_encoding = input_encoding
    self.SetCredentials(username, password)
 
-def run(name, pswd, search_term):
+def run(search_term):
    acc_token = pickle.load(file(KEY_FILE_API))
    gae_twitter = AppEngineTwitter()   
    gae_twitter.set_oauth(CONSUMER_KEY,
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ def run(name, pswd, search_term):
    results = gae_twitter.search(search_term.encode('utf8'), {'rpp': 20})
    api = oauth_twitter() #twitter.Api(username=bot_username, password=bot_password)
    escape_user_list = []
-   escape_user_list.append(name)
+   escape_user_list.append(BOT_USERNAME)
 
    # Get most corrently tweeted tweet
    status = api.GetUserTimeline()
@@ -149,4 +149,4 @@ def run(name, pswd, search_term):
 twitter.Api.__init__ = twitter_api_init_gae
 
 # Start to run
-run(BOT_USERNAME, BOT_PASSWORD, SEARCH_TERM)
+run(SEARCH_TERM)

regist_pin.py

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import sys, os, pickle
 from oauthtwitter import *
 
-KEY_FILE_API    = "Api_key.dat"
+KEY_FILE_API    = "api_key.dat"
 
 def twitter():
     if os.path.isfile(KEY_FILE_API):