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ca-dmv-bot

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Social media bot that randomly posts 35,509 personalized license plate applications the California DMV received from 2015-2017.

Watch it live on the following platforms:

Data

The data ca-dmv-bot uses is sourced from @21five/ca-license-plates, which states;

  • 35,509 personalized license plate applications that the California DMV received from 2015 through 2017
  • These aren't all applications reviewed by the DMV during that timeframe; only applications that were flagged for additional review by the Review Committee
  • Compiled from 623 Excel workbooks that the DMV prepared for a public records request

Notes

  • Uses Discord to manually approve plates (to ensure no obscene content gets posted, such as slurs)
  • Uses GraphicsMagick (fork of ImageMagick) to generate images
  • Does not include review reason codes for brevity purposes
  • Made on a slow weekend; only ephemeral logging exists and there is little-to-no error checking

Thanks

  • Noah Veltman (@veltman), 21five (@21five_public) - Compiling the data that ca-dmv-bot uses
  • Dylan (@brickdylanfake) - Creating a custom font for the bot to use as well as making the profile picture and banner
  • My friends - Helping me moderate the bot :D

License

ca-dmv-bot is licensed under the MIT license. A copy of it has been included with ca-dmv-bot.

ca-dmv-bot uses the Cascadia Code font, a project licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL).