https://github.com/AlbertSuarez/covid19-bot

🤖 Real-time Twitter bot notifying new confirmed Coronavirus cases
https://github.com/AlbertSuarez/covid19-bot

2019-ncov bot coronavirus covid-19 python twitter-bot

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🤖 Real-time Twitter bot notifying new confirmed Coronavirus cases

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/AlbertSuarez/covid19-bot
• Owner: AlbertSuarez
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-03-03T08:40:28.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-03-26T18:59:42.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-31T20:49:48.596Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: 2019-ncov, bot, coronavirus, covid-19, python, twitter-bot
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://twitter.com/coronavid19_bot
• Size: 57.6 KB
• Stars: 15
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 3
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE

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# CoVid-19 bot

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[Twitter account](https://twitter.com/coronavid19_bot) | [Devpost project](https://devpost.com/software/covid19-bot) | [Static repo website](https://asuarez.dev/covid19-bot/)

🤖 Real time Twitter bot notifying new confirmed Corona virus (CoVid-19) cases, deaths and recovered people by location.

## Data source

Real time data is being retrieved from the [Worldometer website](https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/).

## Python requirements

This project is using Python3.7. All these requirements have been specified in the `requirements.lock` file.

1. [Requests](https://2.python-requests.org/en/master/): used for retrieving the HTML content of a website.

2. [Dictdiffer](https://dictdiffer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/): used for checking data differences easier.

3. [APScheduler](https://apscheduler.readthedocs.io/en/stable/): used for scheduling jobs in a certain time.

4. [Twitter](https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/): used for posting tweets.

5. [BeautifulSoup](https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4/): used for scraping an HTML content.

6. [Tor](https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/debian.html.en): used for making requests anonymous using other IPs.

7. [Fake User-Agent](https://pypi.org/project/fake-useragent/): used for using random User-Agent's for every request.

## Recommendations

Usage of [virtualenv](https://realpython.com/blog/python/python-virtual-environments-a-primer/) is recommended for package library / runtime isolation.

## Usage

To run this script, please execute the following from the root directory:

1. Setup virtual environment

2. Install dependencies

  ```bash

  pip3 install -r requirements.lock

  ```

3. Set up [Twitter API](https://developer.twitter.com/) account creating the .env file. This file must have this structure (without the brackets):

  ```

  TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY={TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY}

  TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET={TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET}

  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY={TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_KEY}

  TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET={TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET}

  ```

4. Run the script as a Docker container

  ```bash

  docker-compose up -d --build

  ```

## Authors

- [Albert Suàrez](https://github.com/AlbertSuarez)

## License

MIT © CoVid-19 bot