VacTrackOntario

Vaccine Tracker Ontario on Twitter

Project page: https://lindayi.me/vaccinebotto/

Dependencies

• python (tested on 3.6.9)
• numpy (tested on 1.19.0)
• tweepy (tested on 3.10.0)

Setup

1. Replace the TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY, and TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET values with your own Twitter account credentials.
2. Replace the BASE_PATH value with the path that you intend to run the script under. The script will read the status file on_vax_tracker_last_date.ini from the BASE_PATH. Feel free to modify STATUS_PATH as well if you do not like the file name or do not intend to store the status file under the same directory as the script.
3. (Optional) Modify parameters such as ON_POPULATION, BAR_LENGTH, and TWEET_TEMPLATE. It may be a good idea to test if your template is over the length limit of a tweet.
4. Update the status file (on_vax_tracker_last_date.ini) to one day before the date that you intend to start tweeting from. It can be a date in the past or future.
5. Set up a crontab job to run the script periodically. For example: */5 10 * * * python3 /projects/vacbot/on_vax_tracker.py >> /projects/vacbot/on_vax_tracker.log. Don't worry, the script updates the status file and won't repeatedly tweet what has already been tweeted.

For the detailed process of obtaining credentials for your Twitter account, please see https://realpython.com/twitter-bot-python-tweepy/#creating-twitter-api-authentication-credentials