Installing the bot on Ubuntu

It’s recommended to install the Discord-Twitter-Bot via the command line. If you are running multiple python scripts on your server it is recommended to use virtualenv.

Installing Python3.6 and pip

Ubuntu 18.04 & Ubuntu 16.04

# Install system dependencies
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install git python3.6 python3.6-pip
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

# Upgrading pip and installing venv
sudo python3.6 -m pip install --upgrade pip

Ubuntu 14.04

# Install system dependencies
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install git python3.6
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

# Install pip and installing venv
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
sudo python3.6 get-pip.py
sudo python3.6 -m pip install --upgrade pip

Installing

When running Python scripts it is recommended to use virtualenv. Without virtualenv there is a risk of breaking your Python scripts when you install other Python scripts that depend on different Python packages versions.

Installing the bot with virtualenv

# Installing virtualenv
python3.6 -m pip install virtualenv

# Clone the Discord-Twitter-Bot to your home directory
git clone https://github.com/nntin/discord-twitter-bot.git ~/discord-twitter-bot -b master
cd ~/discord-twitter-bot

# Creating the virtual environment and activating it
python3.6 -m pip venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

# Install Python dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Exiting the virtual environment
deactivate

Installing the bot without virtualenv

# Clone the Discord-Twitter-Bot to your home directory
git clone https://github.com/nntin/discord-twitter-bot.git ~/discord-twitter-bot -b master
cd ~/discord-twitter-bot

# Install Python dependencies
python3.6 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

python3.6 -m is necessary. Else it is possible you are installing the dependencies on another Python version!

Configuring the bot

Watch out! Before you can start the bot you need to configure the bot first. It needs to know which tweets it is supposed to post into your text channel.

Starting the bot

If everything was done correctly you can now start the bot.

Starting the bot with virtualenv

cd ~/discord-twitter-bot
. venv/bin/activate
python3.6 bot/main.py
deactivate

Starting the bot without virtualenv

cd ~/discord-twitter-bot
python3.6 bot/main.py

Misc

Every system is a tiny bit different. You might already had Python3.6 or you have multiple Python versions.

In this guide I wrote everywhere python3.6 to ensure you really have the correct version. It is however possible that python and python3 are using the same version as python3.6. Even if that is the case you should not use them interchangeably since it is possible you have the same version installed twice.

# Check your Python version.
python -V
python3 -V
python3.6 -V

# Check the location of your Python version.
# This is useful if you want to run your script in systemd
which python3.6