https://github.com/elizabethsiegle/muni_call_email_representatives_chatbot
Chatbot built with Twilio Functions and Twilio Autopilot using JavaScript to mass email all 11 members of the SF County Transportation Authority telling them to defund SFPD and redirect the funds to Muni so the city does not lose 40/68 bus lines!!
https://github.com/elizabethsiegle/muni_call_email_representatives_chatbot
chatbot civic-tech javascript nodejs politics sanfrancisco sendgrid sendgrid-api twilio twilio-sms twilio-sms-api
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Chatbot built with Twilio Functions and Twilio Autopilot using JavaScript to mass email all 11 members of the SF County Transportation Authority telling them to defund SFPD and redirect the funds to Muni so the city does not lose 40/68 bus lines!!
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/elizabethsiegle/muni_call_email_representatives_chatbot
- Owner: elizabethsiegle
- Created: 2020-07-09T03:03:45.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2020-07-15T23:48:35.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-08T15:49:06.333Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: chatbot, civic-tech, javascript, nodejs, politics, sanfrancisco, sendgrid, sendgrid-api, twilio, twilio-sms, twilio-sms-api
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://t.co/jkycSPMkf2?amp=1
- Size: 16.6 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
## Mass Call and Email your Representatives via SMS
This repo contains code to make a civic-minded chatbot to mass call and email SF County Transportation Authority representatives using
- [Twilio SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com/)
- [Twilio Autopilot](https://www.twilio.com/autopilot)
- [Twilio Functions](https://www.twilio.com/docs/runtime/functions)
- [TwiML Bins](https://www.twilio.com/docs/runtime/tutorials/twiml-bins)
You need three things:
- A Twilio account - [sign up for a free one here and receive an extra $10 if you upgrade through this link](http://www.twilio.com/referral/iHsJ5D)
- A Twilio phone number with SMS capabilities - [configure one here](https://www.twilio.com/console/phone-numbers/search)
- A SendGrid account - [make one here](https://app.sendgrid.com)
### Test it out
Text +14153068517 something like a greeting or "don't defund muni".
### Where does each file in this repo go to make bulk/mass calls and emails?
You need to [make a Twilio Autopilot bot](https://www.twilio.com/console/autopilot/list). Replace the code in the `Greeting` task with the code in `greeting.json`. Then make a task `Call` and replace that JSON with the code in `call.json`. That JSON task [redirects](https://www.twilio.com/docs/autopilot/actions/redirect) to a [Twilio Function](https://www.twilio.com/console/functions/manage) that contains the JavaScript code in `call.js`. It is there that calls are made to a JS object containing the SFCTA members and their phone #s, passing in a TwiML bin URL that contains the XML in `call.xml`.
To email, make a task in your Autopilot bot console called `email` and replace that JSON code with the code in `email.json`. That [redirects](https://www.twilio.com/docs/autopilot/actions/redirect) to a second [Twilio Function](https://www.twilio.com/console/functions/manage) that contains the JavaScript code in `email.js`. `email.js` also has the option to send an email receipt. Make a task in your Autopilot bot console called `email_receipt` that contains the JSON code in `email_receipt_collect.json` that asks if the user would like an email receipt and redirects to a third Twilio Function that contains the code in `email_receipt_check.js` checking if they sent "yes" or "no". If they sent "no", they are given a list of resources. Else if they sent "yes", that Function then redirects to a different Autopilot task that contains the JSON in `email_receipt_send.json` to ask for the user's email and redirects to a fourth and final Twilio Function that contains the code in `email_receipt_send.js`.
### Who is called and emailed?
The SF County Transportation Authority board. Many are also on the SF board of supervisors.
- [Aaron Peskin](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-peskin), Chair of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority. Phone: +14155547450, email: Aaron.Peskin@sfgov.org.
- [Rafael Mandelman](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-mandelman-district-8), Vice Chair of SF CTA. Phone: +14155546968, email: mandelmanstaff@sfgov.org.
- [Dean Preston](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-preston-district-5): phone: +14155547630, email: prestonstaff@sfgov.org
- [Sandra Lee Fewer](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-fewer-district-1): phone: +14155547410, email: Sandra.Fewer@sfgov.org.
- [Matt Haney](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-haney-district-6). phone: +14155547970, email: haneystaff@sfgov.org.
- [Gordon Mar](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-mar-district-4). phone: +14155547460, email: marstaff@sfgov.org
- [Hillary Ronen](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-ronen-district-9). phone: +14155545144, email: RonenStaff@sfgov.org.
- [Ahsha Safai](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-safai-district-11). phone: +14155546975, email: Ahsha.Safai@sfgov.org.
- [Catherine Stefani](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-stefani-district-2). phone: +14155547752, email: Catherine.Stefani@sfgov.org.
- [Shamann Walton](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-walton-district-10). phone: +14155547670, email: waltonstaff@sfgov.org.
- [Norman Yee](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-yee-district-7). phone: +14155546516, email: Norman.Yee@sfgov.org.
- [Vallie Brown](https://sfbos.org/supervisor-brown-district-5). phone: 415-554-7630, email: vallie.brown@sfgov.org.
Here's to more civic-minded tech, and saving mass public transit!