Chronodose twitter bot

This repository hosts https://twitter.com/chronodoseparis source code

It leverages https://vitemadose.covidtracker.fr/ to find new available appointments in the "chronodose" section

Installation

Create a twitter app on http://apps.twitter.com/, and create a twitter account for your bot.

To generate twitter account tokens for a twitter app, you can use this script https://gist.github.com/PLhery/4c82273e351540be327908c44698b322

Using docker-compose

• download the docker-compose.yml file

mkdir chronobot
cd chronobot
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PLhery/chronodose_twitterbot/main/docker-compose.yml -o docker-compose.yml

• customize the ENVIRONMENT section in the file vim docker-compose.yml

• run docker-compose up -d

• To update the bot, run docker-compose pull && docker-compose up -d

Using docker

docker run -d plhery/chronodose_twitter -e DEPARTMENTS_TO_CHECK=75,92,93,94 -e APP_KEY=XXXX -e APP_SECRET=XXXX -e ACCESS_TOKEN=XXXX -e ACCESS_SECRET=XXXX

Using node / pm2

• clone the repository
• fill the .env file with your twitter credentials / tweak some options
• either use docker to install and start the bot

docker build . -t plhery/chronobot
docker run -d plhery/chronobot

• Or use node 14 + npm to start the bot:

npm install
npm run build
npm start 

• To start in the background, for instance you can use pm2:

npm install -g pm2
pm2 start chronobot

License

Apache License 2.0