Making a twitter bot in the year 2022 with node.js

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2022-09-22 22:00:48

Recently, we made the logistic map fractal visualizer app, but, how do we keep USER ENGAGEMENT METRICS up? Gotta make a twitter bot to post fractals, that's how!

I found it somewhat tricky to get this working, because there is a lot of odd lingo out there. There are libraries that may help you, but this post goes through making an OAuth client in node.js to post to the twitter API with fairly unabstracted code. OAuth still confuses me, but if you follow these steps, you can make a bot!

Get your keys. I forget the exact procedure for this but go to https://developer.twitter.com and sign up, register an "app" with them, and poke around for awhile. This github repo provides a couple more details about the process of registering https://github.com/manzt/cron-tweet#create-a-standalone-app-in-the-developer-portal

After sometime, you should get a screen that looks like this. Keep this around for Step 4. Note: I did not have to apply for any elevated access for this article, just the basic level you get from the initial registration! I believe in twitter terms, this article only requires "Essential" access and not any "Elevated" access.