Based on an improv demo workshop I "gave" at ELO2017 when the presenter didn't come.
For a non-progammer, the easiest method I know of is Cheap Bots Done Quick by @v21 based on Tracery.js grammar by @GalaxyKate (Kate Compton).
The example code we created in the tutorial is shown in the image below:
All "stories" start with the origin, and the #hashtag# words are expanded and substituted.
There's an online Tracery tutorial here.
(The much more complicated rat bio app I showed integrates a bunch of data sources -- it's here.)
2 Tutorials from @v21:
The YeatsBot I had made that we re-wrote used this Python code in my repo. I made it by following this tutorial by @spine_cone. I modified it a little to make the text extract from the book a little nicer.
The structure of the code is that the bot.py code tweets excerpts from a book.txt file, text taken from a random location and less than 140 characters. The secret twitter authorization keys are not shown in the repo. They can be found on your twitter app page if you "Create a new app." Your keys are on the "Keys and Access Tokens" tab. These keys are hand-uploaded or typed into Python Anywhere, which was hosting the bot before we turned it into a new bot using CheapBots. "Hosting" means that the code was uploaded to their site, which has a web server, and it is set up to run once a day automatically.
- Newfound Planets by @cbquist (I think Tracery?)
- A Strange Voyage by @joebaxterwebb (simple but compelling, not sure how it's coded)
- Phantom Funhouse by @tinysubversions (advanced and mysterious)
Here's my Medium newsletter that had a couple in it.
Here's some introductory material on making bots. This is a good long list of twitter bot tutorials. Most still require learning or using a little bit of code.
Should I add some links here? Did I miss any non-coding important resources?
