Fortune Bot Back Online

Posted by Andrew Denner on July 04, 2013 · 1 min read

Fortune

After a long break, the unix_quote fortune bot is back online. It is posing linux fortune command results from an Ubuntu server.  The script is written in perl using the Net::Twitter::Lite library and is run using cron several times a day.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::Twitter::Lite;
my $nt=Net::Twitter::Lite->new(
legacy_lists_api => 1,
consumer_key => "",
consumer_secret => "",
access_token => "",
access_token_secret => "",
);
$quote=`/usr/games/fortune`;
$qupte=substr($quote,0,139);
$quote =~ s/\s+$//;
$nt->update($quote);

Of course, the secret passwords have been omitted to protect the innocent. The magic Oath passwords can be obtained from the twitter developer site.