BoulderCreekBot

https://twitter.com/BoulderCreekBot

WHAT

An automated twitter bot that reports the daily discharge volume of the Boulder Creek at North 75th Street, Boulder, CO. Source data is located at: https://waterdata.usgs.gov/co/nwis/uv?cb_00060=on&cb_00065=on&format=gif_default&site_no=06730200&period=45&begin_date=2018-03-21&end_date=2018-05-05

WHY

• Code for Boulder Boulder Startup week Workshop.
• Monitoring Creek discharge relative to historical discharge volumes can be a proxy for available water in the region.
• Twitter Bots are fun.

HOW

1. Install Python here - preferably 2.7
2. git clone this repo
3. pip install tweepy + pip install requests
4. Create a dummy Twitter account. For this to work, you need to associate your phone number with your Twitter account.
5. Go to apps.twitter.com and click on 'Create New App ' button
6. Fill out details like so and hit Create you Twitter Application.
7. You will now have your Application Key/Secret.
8. Create your Access Key/Secret.
9. Fill out secrets.py with App/Access Key/Secrets information.
10. python bot.py {number of days you want to look back, max 120}
11. Tweak as per desire.

WHEN

Saturday, My 19th

Who

varun@codeforboulder.org