Hide and Google 🤖

Hide and Google is a twitter-bot that runs server-side (or client-side, if you wanted) to play the world's most difficult and adventerous game of hide-n-go-seek. Utilizing a variety of API's such as twit and the free Google Street View API, this little piece of Node.js Javascript can actively monitor for responses on tweets and run itself.

Current development status [1.0.0]

As of Jan. 2018 - this is barely built up. Meaning – It's probably unstable since I just wrote it. But it seems to work... Feel free to fork and have fun under the GNU AGPLv3 license but please note a large majority of this source code is likely to be overwritten or heavily modified on a day-to-day basis.

Script workflow

• Searches downloaded list of city names and filters names that are just too difficult to spell in English
• Sends an API request to Google to see if a random street view .JPG is available in the city.
• Since Google doesn't offer a "no" output, but rather a grey "not found" image, the software tests the size of it and determines what it is, automatically filtering it.
• Connects to twitter API and posts the image with a randomly selected message. Uses the stream to wait for the correct response, and when it's seen, the bot congratulates the winner and moves onto the next round.

To be added

• Lots.

Demo

https://twitter.com/hideandgoogle

Quick Start

$ cd /hide-and-google/

npm i --save twit random-world inquirer image-downloader fs

Go into the hag-bot.js file and focus at the top.

This will need to be configured as per your keys and desired settings.

NOTE: This will be ported over to a seperate config.json file soon!

// ----- SETTINGS
const googleStreetAPIKey = 'x';
const googleStreetSettings = '&fov=100';
const sizeOf404Image = 9000;
var T = new Twit({
    consumer_key: 'x',
    consumer_secret: 'x',
    access_token: 'x-x',
    access_token_secret: 'x',
    timeout_ms: 60 * 1000, // optional HTTP request timeout to apply to all requests.
})

Then node hag-bot.js.

Reccomended that you run this on a VPS with latest Node.js installed.

Licensed under GNU AGPLv3