twarkov

Markov text-generator for Twitter timelines. Deals with @ mentions, hashtags, and URLs.

installation

With pip: pip install twarkov

example usage

See example.py. You'll need Twitter API credentials to scrape a timeline, and to set them as environment variables for the example script to work. First replace the '???' below with your creds and run these commands in your terminal:

export APP_KEY='???'
export APP_SECRET='???'
export OAUTH_TOKEN='???'
export OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET='???'

Then clone this repo, create a virtualenv, and install requirements:

git clone https://github.com/amandapickering/twarkov.git
mkvirtualenv twarkov
pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit example.py to add your twitter handle, then run it: python example.py

You'll see a markov-generated tweet each time you run the script.

you can also tweak the ngram–example.py uses 1 for more randomness, 2 (the default) works as well.

todo

• still some issues with apostrophes in the middle of words
• no conjunctions at the end of a tweet
• TESTS