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Mercury

A twitter bot that generates tweets based on its mood. Made in collaboration with Michael Troute (@troute and SUNET: mtroute). The bot runs on heroku

##Technical Details

We generated several corpora of quotes corresponding to various emotions from goodreads and saved them as separate txt files. Every day, the bot chooses a new emotion and starts generating tweets based on the mood. It does so by creating markov chains of maximum length 120 and then appending a hashtag, which is a synonym of the emotion.

##Packages used

• Markovify - to generate the tweets
• Tweepy - to handle the twitter API
• PyDictionary - to find synonyms of words
• BeautifulSoup & Requests - to scrape goodreads for quotes

##Testing

You can check the account of the bot, or implement it in your own account or alternatively, you can replace line 52 in main.py with print(text) and delete line 53 to generate tweets more quickly

##Todo

Respond to twitter mentions. We haven't had time to implement this yet