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twitter-contest-bot

Will poll for Retweet Contests and retweet them.

Forked from https://github.com/kurozael/twitter-contest-bot

Edited for French Contests and optimized for Heroku

Disclaimer

This bot is written purely for educational purposes. I hold no liability for what you do with this bot or what happens to you by using this bot. Abusing this bot can get you banned from Twitter, so make sure to read up on proper usage of the Twitter API.

Prerequisites

  • TwitterAPI
  • Python 2.7

Python 2.7: https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/ For information on how to install python: https://www.howtogeek.com/197947/how-to-install-python-on-windows/

Configuration

Open up config.json and make the values correspond to your Twitter API credentials.

Change your Twitter Account settings to allow dm's from anybody.

Installation

1: Find and Open up Command Prompt

2: In Command Prompt Run: pip install TwitterAPI

Errors: Search Google. Typically it's about python not being installed correctly.

3: Using Notepad (recommended) or your preferred editor open config.json. Fill in with your credentials. For information on how to get Twitter Creds: http://docs.inboundnow.com/guide/create-twitter-application/

4: Then run main.py. (Double click on file or main.py in command prompt)

***Depending on how lucky you get you typically win around 0.1% of all contests entered***