mybot2.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Twitter Bot Starter Kit: Bot 2

# This bot tweets a text file line by line, waiting a
# given period of time between tweets.

# Download a Project Gutenberg "Plain Text UTF-8" file,
# open it in Notepad, remove junk at beginning,
# and replace all double-linebreaks with single linebreaks.


# Housekeeping: do not edit
import tweepy, time
from credentials import *
auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_SECRET)
auth.set_access_token(ACCESS_TOKEN, ACCESS_SECRET)
api = tweepy.API(auth)


# What the bot will tweet

filename = open('twain.txt','r') 
tweettext = filename.readlines() 
filename.close()

for line in tweettext[0:5]: #Will only write first 5 lines
    api.update_status(line)
    print line
    time.sleep(15) # Sleep for 15 seconds

print "All done!"

# To quit early: CTRL+C and wait a few seconds