Comments on: Twitter Bot http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/08/twitter-bot/ I build crappy websites every day! Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: ajaswa http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/08/twitter-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-25 ajaswa Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:53:20 +0000 http://andrewjaswa.com/?p=26#comment-25 Thanks Luke! I have a few more modifications I need to make to it before I release it. I would love to get your feed back on it. Thanks Luke! I have a few more modifications I need to make to it before I release it. I would love to get your feed back on it.

]]> By: Luke http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/08/twitter-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Luke Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:04:49 +0000 http://andrewjaswa.com/?p=26#comment-24 Just wanted to pop in and say nice job. I wrote TweetSAC for almost the same reasons you did and it was a fun project. You are right, my bot sometimes gets stuck and it is because I have it running on an old PC that craps out on me. Another problem I found with scraping the site was ISP caching. Luckily I found that they have a different RSS feed that updates the instant they change the site and you can find it at http://www.steepandcheap.com/docs/steepcheap/rssplus.xml. That is the feed that their desktop app hits so you can pull from that if you want as well. Again, very nice job! If yours turns out to be more stable than mine then I will shut mine off and follow yours. Just wanted to pop in and say nice job. I wrote TweetSAC for almost the same reasons you did and it was a fun project. You are right, my bot sometimes gets stuck and it is because I have it running on an old PC that craps out on me. Another problem I found with scraping the site was ISP caching. Luckily I found that they have a different RSS feed that updates the instant they change the site and you can find it at http://www.steepandcheap.com/docs/steepcheap/rssplus.xml. That is the feed that their desktop app hits so you can pull from that if you want as well.

Again, very nice job! If yours turns out to be more stable than mine then I will shut mine off and follow yours.

]]> By: jeremy http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/08/twitter-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-23 jeremy Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:33:48 +0000 http://andrewjaswa.com/?p=26#comment-23 It would be cool if your bot would separate deals for men and women. For instance, have deals for men go to twitter.com/sandcmen and deals for women to twitter.com/sandcwomen. Then if a deal is not gender specific it could go to both. It would be cool if your bot would separate deals for men and women. For instance, have deals for men go to twitter.com/sandcmen and deals for women to twitter.com/sandcwomen. Then if a deal is not gender specific it could go to both.

]]> By: ajaswa http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/08/twitter-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-22 ajaswa Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:31:11 +0000 http://andrewjaswa.com/?p=26#comment-22 Ahh good question. I guess I forgot to mention that their RSS feed was very slow to update even worse then the other Twitter bot. It might not be the case anymore but it gave me the chance to learn the Twitter API and write some code. Ahh good question. I guess I forgot to mention that their RSS feed was very slow to update even worse then the other Twitter bot. It might not be the case anymore but it gave me the chance to learn the Twitter API and write some code.

]]> By: jeremy http://andrewjaswa.com/2008/08/twitter-bot/comment-page-1/#comment-21 jeremy Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:27:50 +0000 http://andrewjaswa.com/?p=26#comment-21 I'm curious, why are you scraping their site instead of getting the latest deal from their RSS feed and posting that to Twitter? I’m curious, why are you scraping their site instead of getting the latest deal from their RSS feed and posting that to Twitter?

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