Warbot for Twitter

Twitter bot that randomly selects two users in a list and make them fight, provided a way from another list, posting the result on Twitter with an image.

Requirements

The bot works with php 7.3, nothing more. Mysql support, provided in the first version, has been removed to make it even easier to install.

Subjects

You can edit the list of participants in the file subjects.csv.

Way of diying

You can edit the list of participants in the file ways.csv.

Message

You can set your own message modifying the function createMessage in WarBot.php.

Testing

You can test all the possible scenarios running

vendor/bin/phpunit 

Not a proper test, but it works.

PHPStan support is provided too running

composer test

Installation

Upload the code, rename env.example to .env and configure it with the Twitter credentials of the bot.

Then, make sure to edit your crontab file so the runs each X hours (2 in this case)

0 */2 * * * cd /PATH_TO_THE_CODE; php bin/tweet.php

Notes

Originally used on https://twitter.com/cosmerewars