Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be making a twitter bot that tweets to timeline and follow other users and also retweets to the timeline using tweepy library. All the full source code of the application is given below.

Get Started

In order to get started we need to install the following libraries inside your python project by using the pip command

pip install tweepy

pip install tkinter

After installing all the libraries just make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import tweepy
from Tkinter import *

consumer_key = 'consumer key'
consumer_secret = 'consumer secrets'
access_token = 'access token'
access_token_secret = 'access token secret'

auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(consumer_key, consumer_secret)
auth.set_access_token(access_token, access_token_secret)
api = tweepy.API(auth)

user = api.me()
print(user.name)
print(user.location)

for follower in tweepy.Cursor(api.followers).items():
    follower.follow()

print("Followed everyone that is following " + user.name)

root = Tk()

label1 = Label( root, text="Search")
E1 = Entry(root, bd =5)

label2 = Label( root, text="Number of Tweets")
E2 = Entry(root, bd =5)

label3 = Label( root, text="Response")
E3 = Entry(root, bd =5)

label4 = Label( root, text="Reply?")
E4 = Entry(root, bd =5)

label5 = Label( root, text="Retweet?")
E5 = Entry(root, bd =5)

label6 = Label( root, text="Favorite?")
E6 = Entry(root, bd =5)

label7 = Label( root, text="Follow?")
E7 = Entry(root, bd =5)

def getE1():
    return E1.get()

def getE2():
    return E2.get()

def getE3():
    return E3.get()


def getE4():
    return E4.get()

def getE5():
    return E5.get()

def getE6():
    return E6.get()

def getE7():
    return E7.get()


def mainFunction():
    getE1()
    search = getE1()
    
    getE2()
    numberOfTweets = getE2()
    numberOfTweets = int(numberOfTweets)
    
    getE3()
    phrase = getE3()
    
    getE4()
    reply = getE4()
    
    getE5()
    retweet = getE5()
    
    getE6()
    favorite = getE6()

    getE7()
    follow = getE7()

    if reply == "yes":
        for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(numberOfTweets):
            try:
                #Reply
                print('\nTweet by: @' + tweet.user.screen_name)
                print('ID: @' + str(tweet.user.id))
                tweetId = tweet.user.id
                username = tweet.user.screen_name
                api.update_status("@" + username + " " + phrase, in_reply_to_status_id = tweetId)
                print ("Replied with " + phrase)
                
            except tweepy.TweepError as e:
                print(e.reason)

            except StopIteration:
                break


    if retweet == "yes": 
        for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(numberOfTweets):
            try:
                #Retweet
                tweet.retweet()
                print('Retweeted the tweet')   

            except tweepy.TweepError as e:
                print(e.reason)

            except StopIteration:
                break

    if favorite == "yes": 
        for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(numberOfTweets):
            try:
                #Favorite
                tweet.favorite()
                print('Favorited the tweet')   

            except tweepy.TweepError as e:
                print(e.reason)

            except StopIteration:
                break

    if follow == "yes": 
        for tweet in tweepy.Cursor(api.search, search).items(numberOfTweets):
            try:
                #Follow
                tweet.user.follow()
                print('Followed the user')
                
            except tweepy.TweepError as e:
                print(e.reason)

            except StopIteration:
                break       
            
submit = Button(root, text ="Submit", command = mainFunction)

label1.pack()
E1.pack()
label2.pack()
E2.pack()
label3.pack()
E3.pack()
label4.pack()
E4.pack()
label5.pack()
E5.pack()
label6.pack()
E6.pack()
label7.pack()
E7.pack()
submit.pack(side =BOTTOM)

root.mainloop()

Now in this python script you need to replace some parameters a shown below

consumer_key : Here you need to replace the consumer_key of your twitter account

consumer_secret: Here you need to replace the consumer_secret of your twitter account

access_token: Here you need to replace the access_token of your twitter account

access_token_secret: Here you need to replace the access_token_secret of your twitter account

And now if you run this python script app.py by typing the below command

python app.py