Building a Twitter Word of the Day Bot with Python for FREE

Name: Building a Twitter Word of the Day Bot with Python for FREE
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Learn the basics of the Twitter API and Python without any prior knowledge required!

Created byCarter Snook, Coding United

Last updated 5/2020

English

What you'll learn

Build a Twitter Bot
Basic Use of the Twitter API
PyDictionary Library (Python)
RandomWords Library (Python)
Navigating Dictionary Types in Python 3

Course content

5 sections • 16 lectures • 45m total length

Setting Up Your Twitter Developer Account3:11
Learn to set up a Twitter developer account, apply for access, obtain API keys and access tokens, view the dashboard, and prepare to post a daily word with its definition.
Installing Python 3 and Pip1:15
Installing Your Code Editor1:03
Practice Quiz

Installing PyDictionary0:43
Manipulating Dictionaries2:50
Learn to manipulate dictionaries in Python by accessing values with keys, printing dictionaries, and navigating definitions organized by parts of speech such as noun and verb.
Finding Definitions of Words4:27
Demonstrate using pi dictionary library to fetch word definitions in Python, showing import, dictionary meaning calls, and printing definitions to power a word of day feature for a Twitter bot.
Finding a Random Definition of a Word5:12
Improve the bot by selecting a random definition from a random part of speech using Python's random library, extracting a single definition from the definitions dictionary for the word.
Do you really know PyDictionary?

Generating a Random Word with a Random Definition3:41
Handling a Random Word without a Definition5:04
Use a Python function with try/except to handle missing definitions from the random word library, returning word, definition, and part of speech, then post a daily word with Twitter bot.
Posting our Word of the Day onto Twitter4:49
Post the word of the day to Twitter with Python by loading API keys, composing a tweet with the word, its definition, and part of speech, plus media.
Posting our Tweets Daily4:22

Requirements

Basic Knowledge of Python 3

Description

In this course I will be teaching you how to create a Twitter Bot using Python 3, RandomWords, Tweepy, PyDictionary, Random, and much much more! The first four sections will teach you how to use each of the libraries separately, with the last combining everything to top off this sundae! We will be programmatically posting these tweets instead of controlling the mouse and other methods of creating bots! Therefore, the python file can be running while you are playing a video game! I hope that you enjoy watching this course as much as I had making it!

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Beginner-Expert Python Programmers

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Setting Things Up3 lectures • 5min

The PyDictionary Library4 lectures • 13min

The RandomWords Library2 lectures • 2min

The Tweepy Library3 lectures • 7min

Making the Word of the Day Twitter Bot4 lectures • 18min

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