This Twitter bot recommends a random book every day based on the "word of the day." It retrieves a book recommendation from the Open Library API and posts a tweet with the book's title, author, publication date, number of pages, description, and cover image (if available). The bot uses the twit library to interact with the Twitter API.
- 📦 Node.js (version 14 or higher recommended)
- 🐦 Twitter Developer account with Elevated access (Thank you Elon 🙃) and API keys
- 💎 RapidAPI free account
- Clone this repository to your local machine
git clone https://github.com/Aktilor/twitter-bot-book.git
- Go to the project directory
cd twitter-bot-book
- Install the required dependencies by running the following command
npm install
- Set up your Twitter API credentials and Open Library API key by creating a
.envfile in the root of the project directory with the following variables:
TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY=<your Twitter consumer key>
TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET=<your Twitter consumer secret>
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN=<your Twitter access token>
TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET=<your Twitter access token secret>
RAPID_API_WORDS=<your RapidAPI token>
Note: You have to subscribe to a free RapidAPI Random Word generator to get your RAPID_API_WORDS.
- To run the bot locally, use the command
npm run startin the project directory. This will start the bot and post a tweet with a book recommendation based on the "word of the day" to the Twitter account associated with your API keys.
Contributions to this project are welcome! To contribute, fork the repository, make changes, and submit a pull request with a description of your changes.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more information.