Arthur - A Twitter Retweet Robot

• Author: George Ornbo
• Source Code: Github

Compatibility

• Perl 5
• cURL support

License

Arthur is free for personal and commercial use.

If you use it for commercial use a donation of $25 is suggested. You can send donations here.

Arthur is licensed under a Open Source Initiative - BSD License license.

Installation

You need Perl and the following modules:

• WWW::Curl::Easy;
• JSON;
• URI::Escape;

Open up bot.pl and enter your username and password and the search term you want to retweet.

You can either put Arthur.pm in a standard Perl modules folder or link to it in the bot.pl file with something like:

use lib '/home/george/arthur/';

bot.pl needs to be executable and in a folder that it can write to. bot.pl writes a text file that stores the last tweet id so it knows where to retweet from the next time.

Name

Arthur - A Twitter Retweet Robot

Synopsis

Arthur is a Twitter Retweet Robot written in Perl. It allows you to retweet terms and hash tags.

Description

You can run Arthur from the command line like this:

perl bot.pl

Or you can put it in a cron job like this:

*/1 * * * * /home/george/bots/ee_bot/bot.pl > /dev/null

Arthur does not retweet retweets or retweet himself. That would lead to some kind of horrible infinite loop of retweets.

You can open a ticket over at Lighthouse. As this is free software the response time can vary.

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