Auto reply bot?
- Thread starter ravid32
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- Dec 21, 2012
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The best option for near instant replies is to use the official API: STREAMS function, you set up a listener for a user, then get an instant notification of when they post.
The other way, is to repeatedly scrape the user and when notice a new tweet, reply. This has the issue you cannot scrape every few seconds all day everyday without issues. IF you are using an account to scrape, eventually you get rate limited. The other way is to just use proxies and have them rotate to check the page, then when find a new post, have your account reply. This can work fine, but will not be as quick a reply as the API STREAMS function mentioned above.
You should be able an API bot to do the streams, although I know of none. But you could HIRE A FREELANCER to do that one feature as it is quite simple and costs shouldn't be too high if they have done API work before. Public bots exist for the latter website scrape option.
If you have any questions on the function and it's effectiveness, let me know. Obviously if you want to spam a link with the same reply text all the time, you *WILL* have issues, you have to be smarter than that in 2020
Regards,
Martin
- Dec 21, 2012
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yes they changed the streams API I think about 3-4 years ago now. Should still be able to do it, just need to use the new streams API.I had one that worked with Twitter API back in the day, but since then Twitter changed stuff and it no longer works
It would look like this:
Good memories