This project has moved to Sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~ljc/everywikt

@everywikt is a Twitter bot posting randomly selected words from Wiktionary.

This script runs with Python 3 and depends on a separate module named botutil.

It requires a file listing all of the article titles on Wiktionary:

1. Go to http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/latest/ to see the latest archive of the English Wiktionary site.
2. Download the file named enwiktionary-latest-all-titles-in-ns0.gz.
3. Decompress the file using gunzip.
4. Move the decompressed file to the data directory.

To print a single tweet on the command line, run:

./everywikt.py

To publish a tweet:

export TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY="appkey"
export TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET="appsecret"
export TWITTER_USER_TOKEN="123456789-mytoken"
export TWITTER_USER_SECRET="mysecret"

./everywikt.py tweet

On the first run the script will take a short while to respond. Here it generates an index of the Wiktionary file before preceding, so on subsequent runs it will retrieve a random word very quickly.