This may be an issue with the python Twitter API but when auto-following using this script it enables "mobile notifications" also meaning that every time a followed user tweets something I get a notification via the mobile app on my phone. Also, if I had SMS activated I would get SMS messages each time those users tweeted, which would be a lot of messages sometimes.

I can manually go and disable mobile notifications, but that would take ages.

Is there any way to modify the script so it follows users but doesn't activate mobile notifications for those users?

Hi, could someone show me a file they are using for multiple accounts to autofollow and unfollow aswell as auto retweet certain user and favourite a phase. I am really confused on how to this.

Thanks :D im a noob btw

Hi, whenever I try to run the bot I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "my_bot.py", line 1, in <module>
    from TwitterFollowBot import TwitterBot
  File "/home/TwitterFollowBot-master/TwitterFollowBot/__init__.py", line 99
    "before continuing.", file=sys.stderr)
                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Any idea why this is happening?

Currently, exception lists (e.g., "keep following these users") are hard-coded into the bot. Need to move these exception lists into individual config files.

how run this on server?
like bot using php
thx

I have installed the twitter module, but I am receiving this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/***/twitterbot/twitter_follow_bot.py", line 19, in
from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError
ImportError: cannot import name Twitter

I am running python 2.7

Here is my confirmation that the twitter module is installed through easy_install:

"Adding twitter 1.10.2 to easy-install.pth file
Installing twitter-log script to /usr/local/bin
Installing twitter script to /usr/local/bin
Installing twitterbot script to /usr/local/bin
Installing twitter-follow script to /usr/local/bin
Installing twitter-stream-example script to /usr/local/bin
Installing twitter-archiver script to /usr/local/bin

this is what I'm getting

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/jeremyyoung/Desktop/TwitterFollowBot-master/TwitterFollowBot/init.py", line 21, in
from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError
ImportError: No module named 'twitter

Any Help?

I'm thinking about adding support for multiple twitter accounts. Would first probably start by detaching the configuration in twitter_follow_bot #L25-29. Thoughts all?

I have been trying to understand the psychology of why people follow random accounts on twitter. I am interested in seeing if people are more willing to follow people back if there are multiple actions instead of one. It is pretty common to get a favorite on status that includes SEO or whatever keyword. So what I am interested in doing is have the bot follow people based on who they follow, but after they follow them it favorites a random tweet range [0...20] or multiple tweets. I have done this with instagram and I got pretty good results. In the future it would be cool to log results and calculate conversion based on main account scraped from, but thats another time.

So what I am wondering is what variable do I use to favorite a tweet of the user I just followed? I only see the user id.

Hi,

First of all, thank you for making this available to everyone! It's great!

My problem is, when I use the auto_unfollow_nonfollowers() function on an account that has around 20k followers, it unfollows people that do follow me back.

Researching online, I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18799023/php-twitter-bot-to-follow-unfollow-using-api-version-1-1-and-cursors

Has anyone had this same problem?

Hello!

I've been playing with TwitterFollowBot to favorite Tweets, but keep having issues getting rate limited.

Am I using it properly? Here's the code I'm using:

from TwitterFollowBot import TwitterBot

my_bot = TwitterBot()

while True:
my_bot.auto_fav("#FalloutShelter", count=100)
wait(3600)

Heya,

Just a quick one I can't see to get this to write out to the CSV file, the CSV filename I specified was "./already-followed.csv"

Any ideas?

Cheers

Marc

Ever thought about Instagram, facebook, etc?

As the title says is there anyway to make it follow the people off of someones follow list.

Hello!, I am really new coding python but I got some ideas you may like.

I Saw that
auto_unfollow_nonfollowers(): deletes all the nonfollowers but if you do auto_follow often maybe you follow so much people that wouldnt follow you back and its so agressive, so I figured a way to prevent that only changing the definition and one line.def auto_unfollow_nonfollowers(self,count=None):
and just before the file writings and unfollowing not_following_back = not_following_back[:count]
So if you dont set the count the bot will work normal and if you set it will go only on the interval, so you dont hit rate limits.

How do I fix this error? I have the config.txt file in the TwitterFollowBot folder within this directory anaconda>lib>site>site-packages>TwitterFollowBot.

I have already appended this directory into python.

I'm just following the code

from TwitterFollowBot import TwitterBot
my_bot = TwitterBot()

I am pretty new to python and I have no clue how to fix this error.
http://puu.sh/dlJJR/5d3aafb428.png

Hey buddy! I get this error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "twitterbot.py", line 10, in
my_bot.sync_follows()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/TwitterFollowBot/init.py", line 122, in sync_follows
followers_status = self.TWITTER_CONNECTION.followers.ids(screen_name=self.BOT_CONFIG["TWITTER_HANDLE"])
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twitter/api.py", line 308, in call
return self._handle_response(req, uri, arg_data, _timeout)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/twitter/api.py", line 341, in _handle_response
raise TwitterHTTPError(e, uri, self.format, arg_data)
twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError: Twitter sent status 404 for URL: 1.1/followers/ids.json using parameters: (oauth_consumer_key=

and then it shows my datas.

I also noticed that I can't force follow users by adding their twitter IDs' in the config file.

What i did:

uninstalled and installed again "twitter" and "TwitterFollowBot".

Hope you have some idea. :)

Is there a method to DM an User who is following us ? Thanks for the amazing Work.

Getting the following error...

I've edited my config file. It's in the same directory it came in. Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

It's wrong to call a file twitter-follow-bot.py - In python you should always name files with underscore instead of dash. So it would be correct to call it twitter_follow_bot.py because then it's actually possible to import the file.

It would be useful to have a method to reply to a message

Hello everyone, I just tested the bot and I find them very interesting possibility. I think there is much to do but I find execution is very long! You find things to make it faster?

When creating an instance of the bot I get this error: IndexError: list index out of range, any help?

Hello,

It could be helpful to be able to provide a list of blacklisted users.
The idea is that the bot should never follow the users on that list, no matter what.

It happens that I manually unfollow spammers (or accounts that no longer post anything) and sometimes they get auto-followed again (for example, because some other user still follows them and when i call auto_follow_followers_of_user they get followed again).

This could be made adding another .txt file where the IDs can be listed.

Kind Regards,

Francisco

Hi, I believe you are referencing the wrong twitter repo in your readme. You have a link to https://github.com/bear/python-twitter but then your install instructions actually install http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/. And your code references http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/.

What is really confusing is that both libraries install into /twitter folder in site-packages.

The first example goes :
Examples::

    t = Twitter(
        auth=OAuth(token, token_key, con_secret, con_secret_key)))

it should be Examples::

    t = Twitter(
        auth=OAuth(token, token_key, con_secret, con_secret_key))

Hey I was looking through the api and saw that there is support for geolocation. Any plans to add this search? Its also possible to add location via the q parameter.

Choosing time between 10 and 60 - waiting 31 seconds before action
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\twitter\api.py", line 315, in _handle_response
handle = urllib_request.urlopen(req, *_kwargs)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 161, in urlopen
return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 469, in open
response = meth(req, response)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 579, in http_response
'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 507, in error
return self._call_chain(_args)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 441, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "C:\Python34\lib\urllib\request.py", line 587, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "start_bot_unfollow.py", line 4, in
my_bot.auto_unfollow_nonfollowers()
File "C:\Python34\twitterfollowbot\TwitterFollowBot__init__.py", line 426, in auto_unfollow_nonfollowers
self.TWITTER_CONNECTION.friendships.destroy(user_id=user_id)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\twitter\api.py", line 308, in call
return self._handle_response(req, uri, arg_data, _timeout)
File "C:\Python34\lib\site-packages\twitter\api.py", line 341, in _handle_response
raise TwitterHTTPError(e, uri, self.format, arg_data)
twitter.api.TwitterHTTPError: Twitter sent status 403 for URL: 1.1/friendships/destroy.json using parameters: (oauth_consumer_key=TPG0beLUoVv5C71nWWnfJCkg3&oaut
h_nonce=10443273249529987898&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1437903876&oauth_token=3371608815-Fg5J2wc4mHkus8RwVWE9XLmf92PmU9IkPF25P7V&oauth_ve
rsion=1.0&user_id=1427030012&oauth_signature=XmL3f49B4DkOKLPYncqg2JYbS34%3D)
details: {'errors': [{'code': 261, 'message': 'Application cannot perform write actions. Contact Twitter Platform Operations through https://support.twitter.com
/forms/platform'}]}

Line 426 in init.py is
self.TWITTER_CONNECTION.friendships.destroy(user_id=user_id)

Add a method to perform a post

Hello can you please give me a more detailed way to setup this bot please?

Thanks

Rate Limit support would be fine

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "twitter.py", line 8, in
from TwitterFollowBot import TwitterBot
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/TwitterFollowBot/init.py", line 21, in
from twitter import Twitter, OAuth, TwitterHTTPError
File "/home/ubuntu/twitter.py", line 8, in
from TwitterFollowBot import TwitterBot
ImportError: cannot import name TwitterBot

I am on an ubuntu 14.04 box, I've installed pip, TwitterFollowBot, Twitter, birdy, requests, and I get this error only on my Ubuntu 14.04 server. The script runs fine on my main PC Xubuntu 15

The licensing of this module may prevent MIT/BSD licensed modules from being used to make improvements. GPL doesn't play nicely with them. May I suggest something a bit more permissive, such as MIT?

Not a true Python code, but you'll get the idea.

def filter(tweet):
  if tweet["user"]["screen_name"] == 'Some Spammer' || tweet["text"].contains "banned word":
    return false
  return true

auto_fav("phrase", count=1000, filter)

Currently if i get like 5 users, it gets same people every time until someone else will follow. Is there a way to get 500 users with 500 offset?

Also, what is the limit of this request?

Just suggestions….

I'm using path.dirname for config.txt path. It works well with linux distros like OpenShift:

script_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath( __file__ ))
config_file= script_path + "/config.txt")

Idea: I'm using blacklist.txt for retweets. It's same as get_do_not_follow_list. Useful if you dont want to retweet from someone.

BLACKLIST_FILE = script_path + '/blacklist.txt'

def get_do_not_retweet_list(self):
        """
           Returns list of users the bot dont retweet.
        """
        if not os.path.isfile(BLACKLIST_FILE):
            with open(BLACKLIST_FILE, "r") as out_file:
                out_file.write("")


        do_not_retweet = set()
        dnr_list = []
        with open(BLACKLIST_FILE) as in_file:
            for line in in_file:
                dnr_list.append(int(line))


        do_not_retweet.update(set(dnr_list))
        del dnr_list

        return do_not_retweet

Idea: don't try to retweet already tweeted. Looks like trying to retweet same tweet(searching same hash) many times cause a problem(spam and rate limit). I am going to try to record all retweeted tweet ID's as txt file. If the Tweet ID match do not to try to retweet.

Improving Rate Limit: Rate Limit returns how long you shoud wait as time format. This is complex i know. Just an idea… Don't break the script, wait until limit and continue….

Is there a way to set a limit on how many people you Unfollow? because I just had my app banned due to mass unfollow! I'd like to keep it at around 700

Hi,

I'm currently trying to see if we could add conditions to the retweet bot to enhance quality of retweets.

If we wanted to limit the number of hashtags in the tweet before retweeting and the number of mentions, how would you go about it?

Thanks for your help!!
LX

Hello all, its me again! I have found I get this error when I use the "followback" part of the script.

error: Twitter sent status 403 for URL: 1.1/friendships/create.json using parameters: (follow=True&oauth_consumer_key=oYxgv1tcSytGltLLVbt8o8e00&oauth_nonce=12856182260854981849&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_timestamp=1421159406&oauth_token=174290919-cXlnGvIORpkxhnfXYX7jPPCnyTy6u71GWeYtmMa0&oauth_version=1.0&user_id=174284407&oauth_signature=bjLoXdNHAlnBqnBVC%2FjCmvzGcKY%3D)
details: {"errors":[{"code":160,"message":"You've already requested to follow jajayannie."}]}

I can see the problem but unsure how we can bypass people already requested, because at some point this followback script will hit a dead end if people don't accept the requests.

It might sound a little bit weird, but the unfollow function wasn't working for me anymore (raised errors). I am wrote out the user IDs upon which the API crashed, and I identified ~10 IDs in my following list that caused this problem.

If I ignore those IDs, everything works fine and I can unfollow people again (If I try to unfollow those IDs, the API raises errors and crashes). However, what is weird about those IDs is that they don't correspond to valid twitter handles.

I am wondering how I could remove them from my "following" list.

An example for such an invalid user id: 2455461907

Any ideas?

Hi,

Is it possible to issue a new release of the package with the latest PRs included?

Thanks!

What does "creating an instance" mean?

Anyway of adding timing such as at 10AM unfollow everyone etc?

The Twitter API has the option to pull user names from a Twitter list. Add a function that takes the URL to a Twitter list and follows all of the users on that list.

I want to build a webapp that will follow a screen name and grab all of their tweets. Is this possible using this app?