This app sends random tweets (selected from a database) periodically (each hour) and automatically, through the Laravel task scheduling. This project doesn't have a graphical user interface.
You can read how I developed this app in my blog: Creating a Laravel Twitter bot
You need shell access to a server with the server requirements for a Laravel 5.5 application:
- PHP >= 7.0.0
- OpenSSL PHP Extension
- PDO PHP Extension
- Mbstring PHP Extension
- Tokenizer PHP Extension
- XML PHP Extension
You need to create a Twitter app and the four keys from the app:
- Consumer Key (API Key)
- Consumer Secret (API Secret)
- Access Token
- Access Token Secret
- Clone the project.
git clone https://github.com/amieiro/laravel-twitter-bot.git- Run composer
composer install-
Modify the seeder if you need to change it: edit the database/seeds/TweetsTableSeeder.php file.
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Create the database
touch database/laravel-twitter-bot.sqlite- Migrate the database with the seeder
php artisan migrate:refresh --seed- Create the .env file
cp .env.example .env-
Add the 4 keys from the Twitter app in the .env file.
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Add the scheduler in the cron
* * * * * php /home/vagrant/Code/web/laravel-twitter-bot/artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1The Laravel Twitter Bot is open-sourced software licensed under the GNU GPL v3.