Nanobot: A Tiny Little Twitterbot Framework

Nanobot: A Tiny Little Twitterbot Framework

There’s been a lot of talk this year about bots and conversational interfaces becoming an increasingly important tool for software developers. A few years ago I wrote about a twitterbot that I created, and I’ve just pulled out all of the common logic into a Python framework that you can use to quickly create your own twitterbots by focusing on just the bits that make your bot unique.
Check out ‘nanobot’.

Bot on the Stream

Bot on the Stream

You may remember my post from a while back about my experiences writing a Twitter bot. On my desktop, I keep an instance of TweetDeck running throughout the day, and one of its columns is set to view the notifications for @tmbotg. One of the bits of code in the bot is...