Chatterbot
Chatterbot is a Ruby library for making bots on Twitter. It’s great for rapid development of bot ideas. It handles all of the basic Twitter API features – searches, replies, tweets, retweets, etc. and has a simple blacklist/whitelist system to help minimize spam and unwanted data.
A bot using chatterbot can be as simple as this:
``` exclude “http://” blacklist “mean_user, private_user”
puts “checking my timeline” home_timeline do |tweet| # i like to favorite things favorite tweet end
puts “checking for replies to my tweets and mentions of me” replies do |tweet| text = tweet.text puts “message received: #{text}” src = text.gsub(/@echoes_bot/, “#USER#”)
# send it back! reply src, tweet end ```
Or you can write a bot using more traditional ruby classes.
Chatterbot can actually generate a template bot file for you, and will walk you through process of getting a bot authorized with Twitter.
Features
- Handles search queries and replies to your bot
- Use a simple scripting language, or extend a Bot class if you need it
- Wraps the Twitter gem so you have access to the entire Twitter API
- Simple blacklistling system to limit your annoyance of users
- Avoid your bot making a fool of itself by ignoring tweets with certain bad words
- Basic Streaming API support
- Optionally log tweets to the database for metrics and tracking purposes
Chatterbot uses the the Twitter gem
(https://github.com/sferik/twitter) to handle the underlying API
calls. Any calls to the search/reply methods will return
Twitter::Tweet objects.
Copyright/License
Copyright (c) 2014 Colin Mitchell. Chatterbot is distributed under the WTFPL license.
http://muffinlabs.com