What I learned from building a twitter Art Bot
summary
A Twitter bot called an eggspot queries the Rijksmuseum API for an image matching a tweeted word and replies with that artwork, built in Ruby using the Twitter gem and simple get_image / reply_with_image methods. Early failures include leaking secret keys to GitHub, getting locked out by an infinite reply loop that produced about 25 tweets before Twitter suspended the account, and defaulting to tulip results so a random_image fallback is added.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:52What is a Twitter bot?
- 4:02Twitter bots gone wrong
- 5:53Open Glam movement
- 7:25Building the bot
- 10:36Things that went wrong
- 11:41Fixing secret keys leak
- 12:45Twitter account locked
- 14:36Conclusion and future plans
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