TrumpRegret

Twitter Bot that retweets people who express regret about voting for Trump

TrumpRegret tracks usage of the mention "@realDonaldTrump" on twitter's public stream, and processes each item, looking for exact matches on an array of preset phrases. If there's a match, the bot will retweet.

Installing

1. Clone this repository
2. Install node.js and npm
3. Run npm install in the directory that you cloned this repository into
4. Create a settings.js file with the format below, filling in your Twitter API credentials and Twitter botname:
5. Run node .

settings.js format:

module.exports = {
  CREDS: {
    consumer_key:         '...',
    consumer_secret:      '...',
    access_token:         '...',
    access_token_secret:  '...'
  },
  FILTERS: [],
  HANDLE: 'botname'
}

Running the tests

Simply run npm test

Disabling retweets

Retweets can be disabled for testing purposes by using the argument --dry-run, e.g. node index.js --dry-run. In dry run mode, matching tweets will be logged to the console but not retweeted.