Dankenstein
Dankenstein is a Markov Chain Twitter Bot generator, based on making a mashup of different corpora.
It is described in this blogpost.
Dependencies
The software itself is implemented using Bash, Make, and Python.
You'll need a Twitter Account and a Twitter application. From the latter, you'll need a consumer key, a consumer secret, an access token and an access token secret.
Enter these into twitterCredentials.sh
To generate the supported datasets you'll need :
- Poppler
brew install poppleron macOSsudo apt-get install -y poppler-utilson Ubuntu
After that, you can run the importEnv.sh script in the dev-folder. This will create a Python virtual environment (conda if you have it, virtualenv otherwise) called dankenstein, and install all python-dependencies.
If you'd rather install them separately, they are: Tweepy, darklyrics, wikiquote, markovify; (optionally nltk)
Usage
Usage is based around Make. The following options are available:
make corpora: Builds all corporamake list: Lists all available corporamake combinations: Prints all possible combinations of two candidates - may include duplicates (with switched positions)make model ARGS="corpus1 corpus2 [(scale1 scale2) stateSize overlapTotal overlapRatio tries sentences modelComplexity]": Generates a model based on two corpora (the only required args). If you define scale 1, you must define scale 2. All options inside the square brackets are optional. ARGS: corpus1 string - the name of the first corpus no default corpus2 string - the name of the second corpus no default scale1 float/int - scale of corpus1 relative to corpus2 defaults to 1 scale2 float/int - scale of corpus2 relative to corpus1 defaults to 1 stateSize int - state size of the Markov chain defaults to 2 overlapTotal int - maximum sequential words that overlap with a sentence from the corpora defaults to 15 overlapRatio int - maximum percentage of overlap with a sentence from the corpora defaults to 70 tries int - attempts to make an original sentence defaults to 10 sentences int - number of sentences defaults to 5 modelComplexity string - naive | expert defaults to "naive" EXAMPLE: make model ARGS="tcm jobs 2 1 2 15 30 10 25 expert" && make sentencesmake sentence: Outputs one sentence based on an available (previously trained) model.make sentences: Outputs the amount of sentences given as an argument during model generation.make clean: Deletes all corpora.make tweet: Posts a tweet.It is possible to se all combinations for a given candidate, e.g. make combinations | grep "picard +".
Deployment:
Twitter secrets are set via environment variables, e.g.
export CONSUMER_KEY="consumer_key"export CONSUMER_SECRET="consumer_secret"export ACCESS_KEY="access_token"export ACCESS_SECRET="access_token_secret"An example deployment is described in the bottom of this blogpost.
