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+# DukeBot for Twitter
+
+leander@one-button.org
+April 2024
+
+This is an old bot I wrote for Twitter in the late-2000s using their old API. Posted here for historical reference purposes. It basically just tweets back Duke Nukem insults at its followers.

dukebot.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# Simple Twitter bot in python.  I'm sure there are better ones out there.
+# Requires python-twitter: http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
+
+import twitter
+import logging
+from random import choice
+
+
+# User definable variables
+consumer_key = ''
+consumer_secret=''
+access_token_key=''
+access_token_secret=''
+logfile='dukebot.log'
+api = twitter.Api(consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token_key, access_token_secret)
+
+logging.basicConfig(filename=logfile,level=logging.DEBUG)
+
+# Duke's vocabulary of one liners
+vocab = ["Bitchin!", "Blow it out your ass!", "Damn... I'm looking good!", "Oh...your ass is grass and I've got the weed-whacker.", "Shake it, baby!", "You're an inspiration for birth control.", "Your face, your ass, what's the difference?", "Let's rock!", "My name is Duke Nukem", "I've got balls of steel", "BALLS BALLS BALLS", "What? Did you think I was gone forever?", "Hail to the King, baby!", "My job is to kick ass, not make small talk.", "Looks like those alien bastards drank all my beer.", "Oh yeah! I'm bringing sexy back", "Take your pills...er...vitamins every day and you might grow up to be as awesome as me.", "Huh, I was expecting a monkey", "Pucker up, buttercup!", "Life is like a box of ammo.", "I like big guns, and I cannot lie.", "Get back to work, you slacker!", "Go ahead, make my day. ", "Damn, you're ugly", "Come get some!"]
+
+def makeReply():
+
+	replies = api.GetReplies()
+	if len(replies) == 0:
+		jerks = []
+		for r in replies:
+			screenname = r.user.screen_name
+			jerks.append(screenname)
+
+		poorBastard = choice(jerks)
+		oneLiner = choice(vocab)
+	
+		tweet = "@"+poorBastard+ " "+oneLiner
+		return tweet
+
+	else:
+		# Get a list of possible targets
+		friends = api.GetFollowers()
+		# Randomly select the poor person
+		poorBastard = choice(friends)
+		# Randomly select a one liner
+		oneLiner = choice(vocab)
+		# assemble the tweset
+		tweet = "@"+poorBastard.screen_name+" "+oneLiner
+		return tweet
+
+
+def makeRandomTweet():
+		# Get a list of possible targets
+		friends = api.GetFollowers()
+		# Randomly select the poor person
+		poorBastard = choice(friends)
+		# Randomly select a one liner
+		oneLiner = choice(vocab)
+		# assemble the tweset
+		tweet = "@"+poorBastard.screen_name+" "+oneLiner
+		return tweet
+	
+numTweets = 0
+while (numTweets < 4):
+	if numTweets%2==0:
+		tweet = makeRandomTweet()
+		logging.info(tweet)
+
+	else:
+		tweet = makeReply()
+		logging.info(tweet)
+	numTweets = numTweets + 1
+	
+api.PostUpdate(tweet)
+