Twitter/Mastodon bot posting lines from the LBA games.

The bot in action:

• https://twitter.com/twinsen_txt
• https://botsin.space/@twinsen

This bot is inspired by the WAD BOT by JP LeBreton: https://bitbucket.org/JPLeBreton/wadbot

In order to get the user's OAuth token, you need to run the following in an interactive python session.

>>> api_key='__something__'
>>> api_secret='__something__'
>>> import tweepy
>>>
>>> auth = tweepy.OAuthHandler(api_key, api_secret)
>>> print auth.get_authorization_url()
https://api.twitter.com/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=__something__

Visit this page and authenticate with the twitter user you want to use, and get the PIN to use in the next command.

>>> print auth.get_access_token(__the_pin_here__)
oauth_token_secret=__something__&oauth_token=__something__
>>>

Or, simply create the twitter application with the target account so you can create OAuth tokens directly from the application management page.

Put the application access token in a file name token.secret.

The quote database was created from the game using one of the available HQR unpackers to produce the .lbt files. With the LBA Text Views from LBADeCOMP these files were dumped to individual text files.

The extract-quotes.py script parses these files to the quotes.db. The script is called with each file to process as an argument. It assumes the filenames have the following format: <game>/<id> <area>.txt for example: lba1/08 Citadel Island.txt.

So the script was executed as: ./extract-quotes.py lba1/* lba2/*