I'm currently working on a twitter bot with javascript, node and the twit package. I have set up a timer and a random select function, so my aim is that the bot tweets every 60sec and chooses a random sentence from my array. When I test both bits alone (the timer OR the random function) they work but for some reason I can't make them work in conjunction. I tried to declare a variable for the getRandomSentence() function (like var tweet = getRandomSentence(tweet)) but then I would get this error return sentences[index]; ^
TypeError: Cannot read property 'NaN' of undefined
The code like I've uploaded it now runs but the timer doesn't seem to work.
// timer
setInterval(getRandomSentence, 1000*60)
// random
var sentences = [
'sentence1',
'sentence2',
'sentence3.',
'sentence4',
'sentence5',
'sentence6'
],
maxSentences = sentences.length;
function getRandomSentence() {
var index = Math.floor(Math.random() * (maxSentences - 1));
return sentences[index];
}
// tweets
//
T.post('statuses/update', { status: getRandomSentence()}, tweeted);
function tweeted (err, data, response) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
}
else {
console.log("It works.");
}
}I would really appreciate if someone could help me here! I'm still an absolute newbie.
Hi have made some changes to the code. This works to console log a random sentence to tweet every 60 seconds:
var sentences = [
'sentence1',
'sentence2',
'sentence3',
'sentence4',
'sentence5',
'sentence6'
];
var maxSentences = sentences.length;
var sentenceToTweet = '';
function getRandomSentence() {
var index = Math.floor(Math.random() * (maxSentences - 1));
sentenceToTweet = sentences[index];
console.log(sentenceToTweet);
setTimeout(getRandomSentence, 1000 * 60);
}
getRandomSentence();