dril-is-strange

Source for @drilisstrange. A bot that overimposes tweets from popular twitter user dril over life is strange screenshots

how

It'll fetch a screenshot from a random youtube let's play and then it makes a webpage out of it, screenshots it and tweets it.

I recommend reading the code itself, (start at app.js!) it's pretty straightforward!

more complex how

1. Clone this repo

2. Run npm install to get all the dependencies. This will take a while.

3. Run node and you should get a link to http://localhost:3000, showing a post over a youtube video. Until you set up a twitter app it'll use the local post cache instead of real posts.

4. To take screenies, run node ./bin/screenshot.js

5. To post to Twitter, you first need to make an app at apps.twitter.com (this is where the bot will post!! be careful) and get all four tokens (2 for the app 2 for the user). Then make a .env file filling in the values you see in ./bin/tweet.js. Then just run node ./bin/tweet.js

autoposting

The actual live bot is in sync with this exact codebase, it's hosted in heroku, which has a free forever tier, and there's a scheduled process that runs node ./bin/tweet.js hourly