New feature ideas ! Add here !

[johnbuluba]

Hello
As you know this is the best twiter bot by far on github! But i want to make it even better!
Add here ideas for features that you want to be added

My ideas are:

• Filters:
  Add more tweet filters like max tweet age, max retweets and keywords

• Antibot protection:
  My account has been banned once (twitter is more aggressive after political bot's spam) and i'd like to make it harder for twitter to detect it. I have some propositions that will make the bot behave like a human like:

  1. Sleep time: sleep over night and dont post for some hours
  2. Uneven distribution of posts throughout the day. (Gaussian or some other distribution)
  3. Pseudopost: Generate posts using machine learning and post them (that should be challenging :-))

This is an already over engineered project and i want it to be even more :P , so I would like to hear your ideas (no matter how crazy they are).

Thanks !

[elliotrg93]

Amazing project and one of the reasons I decided to start learning python!

One of the things I'd find useful is a keyword filter for tweets to skip. This would let you choose to skip competitions you wouldn't normally enter (e.g. to win make-up) and also helps to avoid false positives when it flags up sports teams or political candidates that "win" or beat the "competition".

[johnbuluba]

@elliotrg93
Thanks a lot !
As i said above, i already have in mind adding some filters including keywords based, so stay tuned !

[PhilippTh]

Really great project, love it so far.

While using it and browsing through the files i got some ideas:

1. notification if you receive private messages (since I´m using a throw-away e-mail address I need to check the account every so often)
2. support for multiple accounts
3. add a blacklist for these bot-traps like https://twitter.com/BotSpotterBot

If i have some time off in summer I might want to contribute. Tell me what you think about the ideas.

[johnbuluba]

Hi @PhilippTh thanks a lot for your support and your ideas

About your suggestions:

1. This could be useful. I will try to implement that in the next few days
2. Multiple accounts would be tricky. For now multiple instances of the bot are ok for me in the future it could be done.
3. Now the bot doesnt retweet posts from users that you blocked in twitter. But a blacklist (or whitelist) filter could be implemented. I will work on this too !

Thanks again, and feel free to contribute any code !

[johnbuluba]

Blacklist based on keywords and users added ! Please check it out and report any problems
Thanks

[Foncekar]

Add a function for retweet by chance and add a function for tweet an RSS feed for having a account more classical

[johnbuluba]

@Foncekar
Thanks a lot for your input!
I didnt quite get what you mean, the first thing is to retweet a random tweet (for example a popular one?).
The second idea with the rss i didnt understand at all :P

[Foncekar]

For the first thing, yes thats it, maybe retweet some trending tweet with an option for language (en, fr)

For the second it's something like that :
https://github.com/peterdalle/twitterbot
You provide some RSS feed and the bot tweet one random with an interval.

(I don't know if i'm clear, i'm fench ^^)

[johnbuluba]

Ok i got it now!
Do you have any interesting rss feeds to use as a sample ?

[Foncekar]

I think this one :
https://news.google.com/news?cf=all&output=rss

[Ianmcmill]

I would like to be able to read the retweet queue. Just for the verbose-addicted users here.
The --l FILENAME is rather simple a output log.
Maybe more verbose details would be cool too.