You don’t want to put your Twitter keys in anything committed.You’ll need to scale it yourself on the command line:

Heroku scales a web dyno by default, but your Twitter bot will use a single worker dyno.

If you build something from this bot, you’ll probably deployit through Heroku, and there are some things you should know. Replace the ellipses with the keys obtained from Twitter. gitignore to ensure it isn’t committed) that passes your keys when it executes: #!/path/to/shellĬONSUMER_KEY='…' CONSUMER_SECRET='…' ACCESS_TOKEN='…' ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET='…' node index.js

Visit Twitter Apps and create your app keysįor running locally, you can keep a simple shell script (added to.

You can delete it once your keys are generated.

You’ll need NPM, NodeJS, and the twit and request modules: The resulting bot is bot is invoked by including a colon after it’s name, e.g., What’s my fortune?” This allows people to talk about the bot without triggering a response. This bot uses the Aeneid API to reply to mentions on Twitter by posting random lines from Vergil’s Aeneid, to perform the “Sortes Vergilianae,” a kind of ancient bibliomancy by which people could obtain a fortune from Vergil’s epic poem. Now onto the technical bits, which I’ve posted over at GitHub:įirst up, is the Sortes Vergilianae bot, which responds to requests on Twitter. Nec non Tarquinium eiectum Porsenna iubebat

You can now talk about without triggering a response. Dionysius Cato April 5, Sortes Vergilianae (Vergilian Lots) were reportedly used by Hadrian, among others, and now they can easily be consulted by you on Twitter. Address the bot formally with a colon (e.g., and he’ll tell you your fortune. Nam sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago. Instrue praeceptis animum, nec discere cesses These two-line hexameter poems giving moral guidance were long used as a standard text book and were admired by everyone from Erasmus to Ben Franklin.ģ.1. I’ll post the technical stuff below, but if you’d like a little Latin in your Twitter feed, or would like to have your fortune told by Vergil, look no distichs of Cato, tweeted randomly by the hour. This is a quick post to mention two new Latin literature Twitter bots.

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