Can I deploy a twitter bot here?

[ilithya]

Hi,

I was wondering if I could deploy a Twitter bot here. I used to have a dyno in a Heroku app, but I cannot longer use that free service, so I was thinking of switching it here, but I haven’t been able to figure it out by myself.

So far I added my bot as a site and added my environment vars, but have no idea how to test the automation.

Any documentation links or suggestions on how to set up my Twitter bot here if possible would be great. Thank you.

[jasiqli]

Short answer is probably not.

If it is a Node app that previously ran on Heroku, then it likely won’t work on Netlify. See:

[Support Guide] Can I run a web server, HTTP listener, and/or database at Netlify?

Last reviewed by Netlify Support on December 2022 How do I run a server/database at Netlify? We often get questions about how to run a specific backend server or database at Netlify. Examples of these types of questions include: How to I get my node HTTP listener to respond to requests? How do I start Mongo/MySQL/<insert-some-database-here> running on the server? How can I SSH into my website? We are here today to answer these questions - and the answer is: you can’t! What do you m…

Add to this Netlify is designed to host websites, not bots.

[SamO]

Yep that is correct! Thanks for the elaboration!

[ilithya]

Great. Thanks for the reply and explanation.