instagram-markov-chatbot/README.md

Instagram Markov Chatbot

An Instagram chat bot which generates new sentences and sends them in direct messages. Used code from here as a base. If the dataset is too small the bot will break.

Dependancy

- firefox
- python 3
- selenium
- numpy

Configuration

JSON

• username / password

  • In the login.json file please place your account username and password in the username and password entries respectively.

• dataset

  • This is the path to the text file which will be used to generate messages.

• recent

  • The bot will message the top most recent n^th chat, where the n^th chat is the number chosen in the recent entry.

• interval

  • The interval entry controls how often the bot sends a message in seconds.

Command-line

• headless
  • If you want to run the program headlessly append MOZ_HEADLESS=1 to the beginning of the python command.
• message length
  • Optional argument (integer) that determine the length of the sentence. If no argument is provided or a non integer number was given, messages will generate with variable length between 1 and 30.