tng-limerick-bot

🖖 Limericks from Star Trek Scripts

See it in action: https://twitter.com/TrekLimerickBot

Configuration

1. Copy the .env template

   cp .env.template .env
   

2. Create a Twitter app and note your credentials.

3. Use the credentials from the last step to fill in the following fields in .env:

   • CONSUMER_KEY
   • CONSUMER_SECRET
   • ACCESS_TOKEN
   • ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET

Creating Rhyme Database

1. Create a set of parsed Star Trek scripts using tng-parser.
2. Place this set of parsed scripts in a new scripts/ directory.
3. Run ./trek-limerick-bot.js process, and the scripts will be converted and placed into processed/,
4. Now you can run the generate and post commands, and trek-limerick-bot.js will use the processed scripts.

Usage

Local Usage

First, install dependencies:

npm install

Local usage:

Usage: trek-limerick-bot [options] [command]


Commands:

process    Processes scripts in "scripts/"
generate   Generate a limerick
post       Post a limerick as a tweet stream

Options:

-h, --help  output usage information

Example:

$ ./trek-limerick-bot.js generate

He is protected by a force field...
So someone did sabotage the shield...
I got the com panel...
They have closed the channel.
that proud core of him that would not yield...

AWS Lambda Deployment

1. Build the .zip package:

   npm run package
   

2. Upload ./dist/trek-limerick-bot.zip to Lambda

3. Setup a CloudWatch Schedule with a rate(1 hour) activation schedule.