Larry is a Golang cli bot that tweets random Github repositories.
I hold no liability for what you do with this bot or what happens to you by using this bot. Abusing this bot can get you banned from Twitter, so make sure to read up on proper usage of the Twitter API.
- GolangRepos: Tweets repositories from Github that contain the "golang" topic
- RustRepos: Tweets repositories from Github that contain the "rust" topic
- MLRepositories: Tweets repositories from Github that contain the "machine-learning" topic
- CryptoRepos: Tweets repositories from Github that contain the "crypto" topic
You can install Larry by cloning the repo and using go install
git clone https://github.com/ezeoleaf/larry.git
cd larry/cmd/larry
go installYou can also use make for building the project and generating an executable:
git clone https://github.com/ezeoleaf/larry.git
cd larry
make buildOr you can just run it on the go
git clone https://github.com/ezeoleaf/larry.git
cd larry
go run . [options]Before running the bot, you must first set it up so it can connect to Github and the publisher's API.
To do this, you will need to setup the following environment variables:
- GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN
For generating Github access token you can follow this guide
For information on publishers and providers click here
To run the bot, you have two ways.
If you have installed the bot, you can run it using
larry [options]
If you want to run it without installing it globally you can use
go run . [options]
Example:
larry -h
As a response you will see the entire options available
NAME:
Larry - Bot that publishes information from providers to different publishers
USAGE:
larry [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
AUTHORS:
@ezeoleaf <[email protected]>
@beesaferoot <[email protected]>
@shubhcoder
@kannav02
@siddhant-k-code <[email protected]>
@savagedev
COMMANDS:
help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
--topic value, -t value topic for searching repos
--lang value, -l value language for searching repos
--time value, -x value periodicity of tweet in minutes (default: 15)
--cache value, -r value size of cache for no repeating repositories (default: 50)
--hashtag value, --ht value list of comma separated hashtags
--tweet-language, --tl bool for allowing twetting the language of the repo (default: false)
--safe-mode, --sf bool for safe mode. If safe mode is enabled, no repository is published (default: false)
--provider value, --pr value provider where publishable content comes from (default: "github")
--publisher value, --pub value list of comma separated publishers (default: "twitter")
--content-file value, --cf value file containing content to publish
--skip-csv-header, --sh bool to skip CSV file header. If true, then first record of CSV file is skipped (default: false)
--blacklist value, --bl value optional file containing blacklisted repository Ids
--help, -h show help (default: false)
For running the bot, the command will depend on whatever you want to tweet, but, for tweeting about React repositories every 30 minutes, you could use
larry --topic react --time 30 --safe-mode
For running the bot for Rust tweets every 15 minutes
larry --lang rust --time 15
For running the bot for Golang every 15 minutes and specifying a blacklist file named blacklist.txt
larry --topic golang --time 15 --blacklist ./blacklist.txt
For running the bot every 60 minutes using the "contentfile" provider and JSON file for content
larry --time 60 --provider contentfile --content-file ./content.json
For running the bot every 60 minutes using the "contentfile" provider to read CSV file for content and skipping the header record
larry --time 60 --provider contentfile --content-file ./content.csv --skip-csv-header
The contentfile provider serves content from CSV and JSON files.
When the contentfile provider receives a content-file filename with a .json extension, the provider serves random content from the JSON file. This file consists of an array of objects in the following format. ExtraData is an array of strings.
[{
"Title": "larry",
"Subtitle": "Larry 🐦 is a bot generator that publishes random content from different providers built in Go",
"URL": "github.com/ezeoleaf/larry",
"ExtraData": ["68", "ezeoleaf", "golang"]
}]When the contentfile provider receives a content-file filename with a .csv extension, the provider serves random content from the CSV file. Each field may or may not be enclosed in double quotes. The ExtraData strings start at field 4 of the record and a record can contain any number of elements.
The following file has one record with three ExtraData strings.
The title,The subtitle,URL,ExtraString1,"ExtraString2,has comma",ExtraString3
An example CSV file with a header record followed by one record:
Title,Subtitle,URL,Stars,Author,Language,ExtraData1,ExtraData2,ExtraData3
larry,Larry 🐦 is a bot generator that publishes random content from different providers built in Go,github.com/ezeoleaf/larry,68,ezeoleaf,golang
Note: Every record in the CSV file, including the header record, must have the same number of fields otherwise an error will occur. This means if the records will have a variable number of ExtraData fields, each record having fewer than the maximum ExtraData fields must include empty ExtraData fields to match the maximum.
For the github provider, the optional blacklist file consists of numeric GitHub repository IDs to exclude from the publishing process. These IDs can be found on the GitHub repository page source in the meta tag octolytics-dimension-repository_id.
An example blacklist file containing GitHub repository IDs. The file can contain comments using the # character, everything on the line after this character is ignored.
# Blacklisted repositories
123 # description of the respository
456
For the contentfile provider, the optional blacklist file consists of content titles to exclude from the publishing process.
If you're having issues with or have questions about the bot, file an issue in this repository so anyone can get back to you.
Or feel free to contact me [email protected] :)
