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You were looking for a bot, and then you found a bot.

This repo has the stuff you need to run the bot on Red Hat's OpenShift infrastructure. Most of the files in this repo are from rhc default project setup. I used a gear with a Python 3.3 and Cron cartridge.

The meat of the bot itself is in tweet.py. This assembles and tweets the tweet each time it's called. This assumes you have some kind of infrastructure, like a cron job, to regularly call the script.

I may be constructing my Wordnik API calls incorrectly, because I sometimes see plural words leaking through. Until I figure it out, I'm using the inflect library to convert plural nouns to singular ones. I had to manually install inflect on my OpenShift instance by sshing in and running pip; your mileage may vary there.

The cron script that runs the bot is in .openshift/cron/minutely/tweet.sh. It's called every minute by virtue of being in .openshift/cron/minutely. This is what determines how often the tweeting script is called. It should be called about 5 times per day, as per the modulo in the if condition. I may change how this frequency is calculated in the future, but it's fine for now, right? Right.

Uses the badwords list from Darius Kazemi's wordfilter library. I welcome any reports of racist, sexist, ablist, transphobic, etc. language as GitHub issues or over Twitter.

Profile image from The Guardian.