soiqbot

A Python based Twitter bot which posts recently active questions from Stack Overflow on an hourly schedule. Tweaked to run on AWS Lambda.</br> Running Example: https://twitter.com/soiqbot

Prerequisites:

Twitter API key and <a href="http://stackapps.com/apps/oauth/register">StackExchange API key</a>

Lambda Setup Notes:

The way Lambda works requires you to include any library dependencies. In this case after you add your keys to soiq_keys.py you would just zip everything for uploading. For other projects you would need to install them locally like: pip install module-name -t /path/to/project-dir

In your AWS console under Lambda, click "Create Lambda Function" and skip the blueprint. Then upload the zip file. The handler is based on the name of your main file + the name of the handler function (which is what Lambda uses to run.)

Our main file is soiq.py and the function name I used is just "handler" so it becomes: soiq.handler </br>

Finally, click "Add event source", go to "CloudWatch Events - Schedule" and set your schedule for it to run there. </br>

Lambda Docs: http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/lambda

Lambda Pricing (FREE-ish): https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/