Twitter Bot

Twitter bot using the AMP asynchronous framework for PHP.

Requirements

PHP 7.0+

Although the version of AMPHP in this example does not require PHP 7.x, the Twitter client does require it. It was way too much work to build a 5.6 Twitter client for streams. So I went with requiring PHP 7.x.

PHP intl extension

The intl extension is required as the Twitter API supports multi-byte characters.

Composer

If you are not familiar with Composer, head to https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md and install Composer. Once installed, spend a few moments reflecting on all you could have accomplished had you done this sooner.

Installation

1. Clone the repo git clone https://github.com/aenglander/amp-twitter-bot.git
2. Change to directory cd amp-twitter-bot
3. Composer install ./composer.phar install
4. Create a Twitter account. You will probably want an separate account for your bot.
   • Create a new account
   • Add an additional account
5. Create a new app at Twitter Dev logged in as your bot account: https://apps.twitter.com/app/new

Configuration

Copy the ./keys.php.example file to keys.php and update the values as instructed.

Running Examples

User Timeline

The User Timeline example utilizes the Twitter REST API to make a single request.

Run php timeline.php to run the example. It will print out a pretty formatted JSON string of the result.

Stream

The Stream example will connect to the Twitter User Stream API and print out every Twitter update matching the filter criteria.

Run php stream.php to run the example. It will print out the twitter username and update text. You can press <CTRL><c> at any point to end the stream.

Twitter Bot

The Twitter Bot will connect to the Twitter User Stream API and and respond to every update matching the filter criteria that was not from itself. You can press <CTRL><c> at any point to end the stream.

Twitter Stream Portal

The Twitter Stream Portal will start a website that serves up a Twitter feed to multiple browsers through the magic of Web Sockets.

Run vendor/bin/aerys -c config.php -d to start the Aerys web server and start broadcasting the stream. You can press <CTRL><c> at any point to end the stream.

Once the server is started, simply access the web server on port 8080 on any IP for your computer. Most will work for localhost at http://localhost:8080/.