twcapbot - Tweet Caption Bot and CLI

twcapbot provides two distinct programs.

• tweet-captioner-cli CLI tool allows anyone with Twitter API keys to retrieve media of recent (latest 3200 tweets and favorites) tweets of a specific user. Aside from original pictures from tweets, you could retrieve captioned pictures of these pictures. Caption text includes tweet text and some other useful stuff for regarding tweet.
• tweet-captioner-bot When this bot is working users could retrieve captioned images as reply for a particular tweet by simply mentioning this bot’s host account.

Installation

1. go get github.com/gusanmaz/twcapbot

2. cd ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/gusanmaz/twcapbot

3. go install cmd/tweet-caption-bot/*

4. go install cmd/tweet-caption-cli/*

   Usage

tweet-captioner-cli

Command below obtains recent (latest 3200) favorites of @github account and saves media, and captioned media of these tweets into . (current directory)

tweet-captioner-cli -creds creds.json -o . -s github -type fav

• To obtain tweets of a user instead of favorites change type fav into type tweet
• Twitter API credentials are stored in a file and this file’s location should be provided as cred flag’s value
• We will present an empty credentials file below. Once you obtain Twitter API credentials you could modify this file according to your API keys.
• All output of the command is saved into directory determined by -o flag value.

tweet-captioner-bot

Usage of bot CLI similar but simpler.

tweet-captioner-bot -creds creds.json -o .

Twitter API Credentials File

Change values of the credentials JSON files according to your API keys.

{
  "APIKey": "",
  "APISecret": "",
  "bearerToken": "",
  "accessToken": "",
  "accessSecret": ""
}

Author

Güvenç Usanmaz

License

MIT License