This is a simple Twitter bot that searches for recent tweets containing a specific word or hashtag, translates the tweet text into a specified language, and then re-tweets the translated text along with the original tweet's URL.
A Twitter account and API keys Python 3
pip install tweepy
pip install deep_translator
pip install dotenv
Create a new Twitter app and obtain your API keys Clone or download this repository to your local machine Create a file named ".env" in the root directory and add your API keys and secrets as follows:
Modify the word variable in the code to specify the word or hashtag you want to search for.
To run the bot, simply execute the script with the following command:
python twitter_translator_bot.py
The bot will search for recent tweets containing the specified word or hashtag, translate them into the specified language, and re-tweet them along with the original tweet's URL. The bot will continue running until you stop it manually.
The default language for translation is Japanese, but you can modify the target parameter in the GoogleTranslator object to specify a different language. The bot will only re-tweet tweets that have been favorited more than 5 times. This can be modified by changing the favorite_count parameter in the if statement. The bot will pause for 60 seconds after each re-tweet to avoid overloading the Twitter API. This delay can be modified by changing the time.sleep() argument.