https://github.com/sebagomez/isit737max
✈🐤🤖 Twitter bot that replies your aircraft type.
https://github.com/sebagomez/isit737max
azure-functions azure-logic-apps csharp twitter-api twitter-bot
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✈🐤🤖 Twitter bot that replies your aircraft type.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/sebagomez/isit737max
- Owner: sebagomez
- Created: 2019-03-22T15:46:52.000Z (about 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2022-02-14T18:51:56.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-29T16:21:37.806Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: azure-functions, azure-logic-apps, csharp, twitter-api, twitter-bot
- Language: C#
- Homepage: https://twitter.com/IsIt737MAX
- Size: 1.31 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Are you flying a 737 MAX ?
## TL;DR
Just twit your flight number (eg. AA984) to [@isit737MAX](https://twitter.com/isit737MAX) and a bot will reply with the actual aircraft type you're flying. [Try it here](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=isit737MAX&text=AA984)!
## Long(er) story and tech stuff
I'm an [avgeek](https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=avgeek), and as such, I was very curious about the recent news about the 737 MAX. Investigation is still underway but there's a good article from the New York times about it. [What You Need to Know After
Deadly Boeing 737 Max Crashes](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/business/boeing-737-crashes.html).
Every 737 MAX was grounded waiting for "the fix", so I thought I could create something to let people know if they're flying a 737 MAX or not. Why?, because I could, and because it would be a fun experiment. And that's it!.
So I created a new twiiter handle called [isit737MAX](https://twitter.com/isit737MAX), which, when you tweet a flight number to it, it will reply letting you know if you're flying a 737 MAX or not.
#### How does it work?
The code here it's been deployed to an [Azure Function](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/), which is the one sending out the twits. But who is calling that function, how do I know who to reply to and what to reply.
I used to implement that part with a [Microsoft Flow](https://flow.microsoft.com), I then moved it to an [Azure Logic app](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/) and it even worked for a while with an [IFTTT applet](https://ifttt.com/explore). The problem with those integrations is that they were all pulling data from the twitter API asking for mentions. They obviously have a windows in which they work. The Azure Logic app pulled every 5 minutes, and the IFTTT applet once every hour. So I needed/wanted something faster.
That's how I discovered Twitter's [Account Activity API](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise/account-activity-api/overview) which allows you to setup a webhook from an account to your endpoint.
So right now I have a small app (not in this repo) that using the [TwitterLib](https://github.com/sebagomez/twitterlib) creates a webhook and a subscription for the [@IsIt737MAX](https://twitter.com/isit737MAX) twitter handle. The urls for that webhook is my Azure function, so now every time somebody mentions* @IsIt737MAX on a twit, the function get called. The function process the twit and send out a reply to the twit with the actual aircraft that's being used for the mentioned flight.
Give it a try, twit any flight number and let [@IsIt737MAX](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=%40isit737MAX%20CM369) let you know if you're flying in a 737 MAX.
And let [me](https://twitter.com/sebagomez) know what you think.