Twitter bot

[briancroxall]

We've got a Twitter account, but that will be hard to manage with a real person. And since the software won't be going through a number of iterations, it might not be as important.

It might be useful, then, to use a Twitter bot to tweet serendipitous things. I wonder if we could appropriate Mark Sample's for this.

[mialondon]

I like it! Add it to future wishlist or can you ask Mark to do that now?

[briancroxall]

Upon thinking about this further, Mark's bot doesn't pull in other sources like Europeana or Flickr. As such, it might make more sense to fork his code: https://github.com/samplereality/DPLAbot. This might be something fun for me to try to learn to do.

It's definitely a future effort, unless I can get Mark responding very soon.

[briancroxall]

There appear to be Trove (https://twitter.com/TroveNewsBot) and Europeana bots (https://twitter.com/EuropeanaBot) as well. So this really could be pretty easy.

[mialondon]

Are you actually doing this?

[briancroxall]

Not actually doing this. Something for future development.

[rlskoeser]

Sounds fun. @briancroxall - I'm willing to consult/advise to try to help you if/when you decide you want to take a crack at this.

[briancroxall]

Thanks @rlskoeser. Something to do in all my spare time!

[mialondon]

I'm closing this as I've moved it to the wish list on the wiki... https://github.com/chnm/serendipomatic/wiki/Wishlist-items-and-future-development-road-map

[hatorikibble]

Here's the EuropeanaBot-Repository. Maybe you'll find it useful

[briancroxall]

Thanks @hatorikibble! This will be helpful...if I ever find some spare time.

[rlskoeser]

https://github.com/wragge/trovebuildabot might also be a useful example (written in python, so it could be built onto & deployed with the current serendipomatic codebase)