This began with Hoaas making a slimmed down version of ProgVal's Twitter plugin. He was just interested in reading Tweets and showing information about the account, not having any write cabaility. I started adding features to it and had to do an entire rewrite after Twitter introduced the v1.1 API.

This plugin is able to display information on accounts, display specific tweets, search for tweets, and display trends.

If you are looking for anything outside of this, I suggest you do not run this plugin and instead install ProgVal's version that I linked to above.

Install

You will need a Limnoria bot on Python 3 for this to work.

load plugindownloader
install oddluck Tweety

To install additional requirements, run:

cd /your/bot/plugin/directory/Tweety
pip install -r requirements.txt

Next, load the plugin:

/msg bot load Tweety

Fetch the API keys for Twitter by signing up (free). Create an application. Fill out the requested information. Name does not matter but the name of the application must be unique. Default is read-only, which is fine. Once complete, they'll issue you 4 different "strings" that you need to input into the bot, matching up with the config variable names.

/msg <bot> config plugins.Tweety.consumerKey xxxxx
/msg <bot> config plugins.Tweety.consumerSecret xxxxx
/msg <bot> config plugins.Tweety.accessKey xxxxx
/msg <bot> config plugins.Tweety.accessSecret xxxxx

Now, reload the bot and you should be good to go:

/msg bot reload Tweety

Optional: There are some config variables that can be set for the bot. They mainly control output stuff.

/msg bot config search Tweety

Example Usage

<me> trends
<bot> Top 10 Twitter Trends in United States :: #BeforeIDieIWantTo | #ThingsIMissAboutMyChildhood | Happy Memorial Day | #RG13 | #USA | #america | BBQ | WWII | God Bless | Facebook

<me> tsearch news
<bot> @ray_gallego (Ray Gallego): http://t.co/ftNbDEzXaR (Researchers say Western IQs dropped 14 points over last century) (14s ago)
<bot> @surfing93 (emilyhenderson): @MariaaEveline Hay here is the Crestillion Interview. http://t.co/CEiDpboeMX (15s ago)

<me> twitter --num 3 @ESPNStatsInfo
<bot> @ESPNStatsInfo (ESPN Stats & Info): In 1st-round win vs Daniel Brands, Rafael Nadal lost 19 games. He lost a total of 19 games in the 1st 4 rounds at last year's French Open. (30m ago)
<bot> @ESPNStatsInfo (ESPN Stats & Info): Key stats from Miami's win yesterday. Haslem's jump shot, LeBron's post-up and more: http://t.co/a4CcUnKJMi (53m ago)
<bot> @ESPNStatsInfo (ESPN Stats & Info): Heat avoid losing consecutive games. They haven't lost 2 straight in more than 5 months (January 8-10) (1h ago)

Extras

Shorten Tweet URLs with TinyURL.

config plugins.tweety.addshorturl True

Return new tweets since the last time you checked in channel with --new

twitter --new <twitter_nick>
tsearch --new <search_term>

Schudule a repeating feed of Tweets from a user. Same options as usual apply, just use --new to only return new tweets.

load scheduler
scheduler repeat <name> <seconds> "echo [tweety twitter --new --num <number> <twitter_nick>]" # add repeating command
schduler remove <name> # remove the repeating command

Want the bot to function like others do parsing out Twitter links and displaying? (Thanks to Hoaas)

<@snackle> https://twitter.com/JSportsnet/status/348114324004413440
<@milo> @JSportsnet (John Shannon): Am told that Tippett's new deal is for 5 years, and he's "committed to the franchise where ever it ends up". (44m ago)

<@Hoaas> Should work on links to profiles aswell: https://twitter.com/EricFrancis
<@Bunisher> @EricFrancis (Eric Francis): HNIC-turned-Sportsnet analyst, Calgary Sun columnist...

Load the messageparser plugin:

/msg <bot> load MessageParser
/msg <bot> messageparser add global "https?://.*\.?twitter\.com/([^ \t/]+)(?:$|[ \t])" "echo ^ [Tweety twitter --info $1]"
/msg <bot> messageparser add global "https?://.*\.?twitter\.com/([A-Za-z0-9_]+)/status/([0-9]+)" "echo ^ [Tweety twitter --id $2]"