This tool collects reported incidents from the NYPD API which is an API that returns NYPD reported incidents into a json format. The tool then connects to a developer twitter account and tweets the incidents that were reported that day into a small and readable report format. See @fordhamcyberpa1 on Twitter for the final product!
| NodeJS Requirements |
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| jsdom |
| jquery |
| sleep |
1) Initialize yesterday var at 11:59 PM (Next day this date will actually be yesterday)
2) Next day at 12:00 AM, clear anything out of duplicate array that has the attribute: date = yesterday (So we don't clear any data from today by accident)
3) Only get items that have: date = today (To prevent getting any of yesterday's data)
4) Go back to step 1
Note: Originally built with the idea that the NYPD API was a live update, turns out that it's delayed by two days. The dates for data can be delayed as long as a year.