#CandyBot

##About Candybot is a simple bot that gives a candy for social actions. Run from a Raspberry Pi.

Current version: v0.2

##Changelog: v0.2 - Add Twitter Stream API to listen tweets, remove button (started twitter api request to check bot mentions in tweets). It works faster and overcome api time rate limit.

v0.1 - First prototype. But listen whether his name is mentined in Twitter, as well as a secret code he give to a User. If user tweet a message with @fun_robots and some secret code, he will get a candy. Just simple, just fun

##Instructions for makers

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1. Setup your RaspberryPi with python environment

• sudo pip install twitter (download https://pypi.python.org/pypi/twitter with stream methods)
• sudo apt-get install python3-gpiozero
• sudo easy_install -U RPIO

2. Setup config for Twitter Workapble packages: python-twitter (or twython, tweepy)

3. Clone git repository

4. Create file secret.py and add the following strings (don't forget to put real credentials there):

   TW_CONSUMER_KEY='put_your_consumer_key_here' TW_CONSUMER_SECRET='put_your_consumer_secret_here' TW_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY='put_your__access_token_key_here' TW_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET='put_your_access_token_secret_here'

5. Run sudo python candybot.py

##References for examples and tips

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Using Twitter Stream API

• http://socialmedia-class.org/twittertutorial.html