{"id":1703,"date":"2008-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1703"},"modified":"2018-09-22T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T06:48:21","slug":"obliquetweet-my-first-twitterbot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/obliquetweet-my-first-twitterbot\/","title":{"rendered":"ObliqueTweet, my first twitterbot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning, little educational content ahead, this is a holiday post.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’ve been messing around a wee bit with the twitter api, twitter tester<\/a>, Tweets to TeachMeetPerth<\/a> and twitter presenter<\/a>, the last in response to Ewan’s tweet: Can one present by Twit?<\/a>.<\/p>\n

None of these are what could be called polished jobs even given my limitations but the TwitterApi Documentation<\/a> is pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n

I have also created<\/em> a few of rss twitter bots the most useful of which is ScotEduBlogs<\/a> which tweets the blogs post title as they arrive on ScotEduBlogs<\/a> this uses the twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter – post RSS to twitter automatically<\/a> I think.<\/p>\n

So it seems time for my first twitterbot ObliqueTweet<\/a>, tweet anything @ObliqueTweet<\/a> and it will reply with a random Oblique Strategy<\/a> (currently the 4th edition).<\/p>\n

The Oblique Strategies are a set of cards devised by Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt<\/a> to solve (artistic) problems by drawing a card randomly. There is a lot of information at The Oblique Strategies<\/a>. There have been a number of computer programs to show Strategies at random, web and download versions. (I even made a supercard project back in 2002). There is a nice php version, minimal design | Oblique Strategies<\/a>, which you can download.<\/p>\n

The ObliqueTweet<\/a> twitterbot, just grabs the most recent @ replies to ObliqueTweet and then grabs a random Oblique Strategies and sends it back as a reply.<\/p>\n

The script is automatically run using http:\/\/www.webbasedcron.com<\/a> once every minute.<\/p>\n

I am wondering now if I can think of a useful<\/i> twitterbot, any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warning, little educational content ahead, this is a holiday post. I’ve been messing around a wee bit with the twitter api, twitter tester, Tweets to TeachMeetPerth and twitter presenter, the last in response to Ewan’s tweet: Can one present by Twit?. None of these are what could be called polished jobs even given my limitations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[91,80,154,26,260],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1703","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"tag-api","8":"tag-fun","9":"tag-mashup","10":"tag-twitter","11":"tag-twitterapi","12":"kind-article","14":"h-entry","15":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-rt","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8003,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/8003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}