TUNESCRIBBLER

A twitter bot that composes a short little ditty out of a tweet. Listens for tweets with a given mention word (a twitter handle, search term etc), and replies to that tweet with a song generated from its text.

The song generation's very simple for now - we parse the tweet text into parts of speech and map each of those to notes in a 6-octave range with a bit of randomization, then generate a midi from the notes (note that because Twitter only supports uploading audio in video form, the song is uploaded as a video).

Demo: https://twitter.com/tunescribbler/status/938635066074333184

Setup

• npm install
• `brew install timidity
• create a Twitter app and get your keys:
  • N.B. this will post under your app's Twitter account, so create the app under a side account if you don't want these tweets to post from your main
• create a .env file and fill out TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN, TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET and the term to listen for as MENTION (can be a twitter handle like @username or a search term like cute)
• node index.js to start listening!

Toolkit

• rita for language processing
• jsmidgen for converting the tweet to music
• timidity for converting MIDI to WAV
• Twit for twitter api

TODOs

• switch to https://github.com/walmik/scribbletune for composing
• figure out other algos for song generation
• update video background (pull image based off the tweet content)