Chatterbot

Chatterbot is a Ruby library for making bots on Twitter. It’s great for rapid development of bot ideas. It handles all of the basic Twitter API features – searches, replies, tweets, retweets, etc. and has a simple blacklist/whitelist system to help minimize spam and unwanted data.

A bot using chatterbot can be as simple as this:

exclude "http://"
blacklist "mean_user, private_user"

puts "checking my timeline"
home_timeline do |tweet|
    # i like to favorite things
    favorite tweet
end

puts "checking for replies to my tweets and mentions of me"
replies do |tweet|
  text = tweet.text
  puts "message received: #{text}"
  src = text.gsub(/@echoes_bot/, "#USER#")  

  # send it back!
  reply src, tweet
end

Or you can write a bot using more traditional ruby classes.

Chatterbot can actually generate a template bot file for you, and will walk you through process of getting a bot authorized with Twitter.

Features

Handles search queries and replies to your bot
Use a simple scripting language, or extend a Bot class if you need it
Wraps the Twitter gem so you have access to the entire Twitter API
Simple blacklistling system to limit your annoyance of users
Avoid your bot making a fool of itself by ignoring tweets with certain bad words
Optionally log tweets to the database for metrics and tracking purposes

Chatterbot uses the the Twitter gem (https://github.com/sferik/twitter) to handle the underlying API calls. Any calls to the search/reply methods will return Twitter::Tweet objects.

Copyright/License

http://muffinlabs.com

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Chatterbot

Features

Copyright/License