Neuralspace-Transliteration-Tutorial

This repository contains a tutorial to create a transliteration twitter bot using NeuralSpace's Transliteration APIs.

Read more about Transliteration

You can set your own custom trigger phase, and whenever anyone on twitter replies to a tweet mentioning this phrase, the bot transliterates the tweet in reply. The bot automatically detects the language of the tweet using NeuralSpace Language Detection APIs, and transliterates the tweet into the given target language.

Supported Languages : https://docs.neuralspace.ai/transliteration/language-support/

Let us get started!

Install requirements

To make the Twitter Bot in Python, we will need to install some packages. Let us make a conda environment. You can use Python >=3.6

conda create --name neuralspace-bot python=3.7
conda activate neuralspace-bot
pip install -r requirements.txt

As you see, we will use tweepy to post on twitter, a package that provides a very convenient way to use the Twitter API. Here is the documentation.

Creating NeuralSpace API Authentication Credentials

To use transliteration APIs, you will need NeuralSpace's access token.

1. Go to platform.neuralspace.ai and sign in to your account. If you haven't created an account signup!
2. Click on Copy access token as shown in the image below.
3. Save this access token and update it in src/config.yaml NEURALSPACE_ACCESS_TOKEN.
4. You can track your API usage and limits from the Neuralspace platform.

Creating Twitter API Authentication Credentials

The Twitter API requires that all requests use OAuth to authenticate. So you need to create the required authentication credentials to be able to use the API. These credentials:

• CONSUMER_KEY
• CONSUMER_SECRET
• ACCESS_TOKEN
• ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET
• BEARER TOKEN

If you already have a Twitter user account, then follow these steps to create the key, token, and secrets. Otherwise, you have to sign up as a Twitter user before proceeding.

Step 1: Apply for a Twitter Developer Account

Go to the Twitter developer site to apply for a developer account. Here, you have to select the Twitter user responsible for this account. It should probably be you or your organization.

Twitter then requests some information about how you plan to use the developer account. You have to specify the developer account name and whether you are planning to use it for personal purpose or for your organization.

Step 2: Create an Application

Twitter grants authentication credentials to apps, not accounts. An app can be any tool or bot that uses the Twitter API. So you need to register your an app to be able to make API calls.

To register your app, go to your Twitter apps page and select the Create an app option.

You need to provide the following information about your app and its purpose:

• App name: a name to identify your application (such as examplebot)
• Application description: the purpose of your application (such as an example bot for a Python article)
• Your or your application’s website URL: required, but can be your personal site’s URL since bots don’t need a URL to work
• Use of the app: how users will use your app (such as This app is a bot that will automatically respond to users)

Step 3: Create the Authentication Credentials

To create the authentication credentials, go to your Twitter apps page. Here’s what the Apps page looks like:

Here you’ll find the Dashboard button of your app. Clicking this button takes you to the next page, where you can generate the credentials.

By selecting the Keys and tokens tab, you can generate and copy the key, token, and secrets to use them in your code: After generating the credentials, save them in the config.yaml file to later use them in your code.
Save API key in CONSUMER_KEY, api key secret in CONSUMER_SECRET, access token in TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN, access token secret in ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET and Bearer token in BEARER_TOKEN.

Start the Transliteration Bot

After following all the above steps, start your bot using the following command. Make sure to add your target language to config.yaml after looking at the supported languages.

cd src
python main.py -k "@neuralspace transliterate" -c "config.yaml"

You can use any keyword as a wake phrase for the bot. Whenever anyone mentions this phrase as a reply to a tweet, the bot will reply back with it's transliteration.

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