Chronodose Twitter bot

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

In May, only slots still available <24h in advance were available for 18-55 year olds.

This bot leveraged https://vitemadose.covidtracker.fr/ to find new available appointments in the "chronodose" section, and double-checked on doctolib their availability, trying to bypass their cache.

It was later used by many twitter accounts in other areas (@ChronodoseTLS @Chronodose54 @ChronodoseNord @Chronodose13 @Chronodose33 @Chronodose_35 @Chronodose5962 @chronodoseclf @Chronodose87 @chronodose29 @Chronodose44)

Installation

Create a Twitter app on https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps , and create a Twitter account for your bot.

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

You can also run npm run tw-login after setting you APP_KEY and APP_SECRET in you .env, to directly generate it from your console.

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
• copy .env.example to .env
• fill the .env file with your Twitter credentials / tweak some options
• to start the bot, either use docker:

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

• Or node 14 +:

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