Code Questions Bot

Why build a tweeting bot?

It all started with a fleeting idea and a tweet. Wait, don't all projects start this way?

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So, with 80% of respondents giving a positive reaction to the idea, I started to plan the project.

I started thinking about the goals, why I was building it, and how it could have a big picture impact. So, here's the main goal:

Have fun & meet other devs while learning and helping each other learn.

There is a secondary piece. I want to make it easy for people to take their first steps into open source contributions. I included a section on contributing in the readme.md. This should make it a bit easier for someone new to contributing on GitHub.

VickiLanger / code-questions-bot

A Twitter bot who tweets code questions and trivia

Code Questions Bot & Tweepy

Vicki wrote this about Building the Code Question Bot

Mission

Have fun & meet other devs while learning and helping each other learn.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, feel free to make a pull request.

First time? I suggest starting with adding a question to questions.py. Check out issue #5 for more details.

If you need more of a step-by-step, skim through this article about making your first contribution.

This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

Who Has Contibuted?

All contributions are greatly appreciated.

Reference Stuff

• Tweepy Docs - An easy-to-use Python library for accessing the Twitter API.

• Twitter Rules

• This tutorial was super helpful

Why are you doing it like this?

I could streamline this bot a lot by using txt files as…

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Requirements

The bot was to be built with Python and Tweepy.
Previously, I made the Vets Who Code Bot. So, I already had some experience with Tweepy.

This bot was a little different because I was looking to update_status. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to do this and made it out like it was going to be super complex. It turned out to be a rather tiny piece of code that actually does the work.

api.update_status(question)

Yup, that's pretty much it. There are a few other lines and some importing files to other files, but that's the statement that does the job.

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What Next?

• Work on automating this follow-up tweet that I've been putting on each question.

  

  Code Questions

  @codeqbot

  

  Here's our 5th question! Stick around, we'll have another in 6 hours
  
  It may be easy, it may be hard.
  Either way, give it a tweet
  Don't know it? Look it up
  Still unsure? Ask

  14:32 PM - 25 Jan 2020

  

• Add more questions
• Write a Dev.to post detailing the steps to making open source contributions with GitHub

Links

Here's the Code Questions Bot

Trivia and Facts

Vicki Langer ・ Jan 23 '20 ・ 1 min read

#discuss #watercooler

VickiLanger / code-questions-bot

A Twitter bot who tweets code questions and trivia

Comments

[dmitrypolo]

I took a quick glance at the repository structure. One piece of advice I can give you right away is to add a .gitignore file to your repository to tell git which files it shouldn't track. You uploaded your __pycache__ to GitHub which doesn't belong there.

[Vicki Langer]

Oh. Thanks for letting me know. I will add the .gitignore and remove the pycache

I knew something looked weird