Build your own Twitter Bot with Kotlin

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100

I read an excellent article by Martin Erlic called “How To Make a Scary Russian Twitter Bot With Java” and I wanted to update it using Kotlin.

Unlike the original article, I will use Kotlin, a newer and more modern JVM-based language, and Gradle as the build system.

To build the bot, follow these simple steps:

Step 1 — Create a Twitter Application

The first step is to create a Twitter Application using the user account you want to perform the API requests with. By creating the Twitter application, you will obtain the API key and API secret, which we’ll later use to authenticate our bot with Twitter.

Twitter4j on Yonatan Karp-Rudin

Build your own Twitter Bot with Kotlin

Step 1 — Create a Twitter Application