https://github.com/simonw/covidsewage-bot

The @covidsewage bot
https://github.com/simonw/covidsewage-bot

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The @covidsewage bot

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/simonw/covidsewage-bot
• Owner: simonw
• Created: 2022-04-17T22:06:23.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-01T14:04:16.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-01T23:17:21.123Z (7 months ago)
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• Size: 235 KB
• Stars: 12
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md

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# covidsewage-bot

- [@[email protected]](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@covidsewage) on Mastodon

- [@covidsewage](https://twitter.com/covidsewage) on Twitter, which is no longer updated.

Posts a daily image of the charts from the County of Santa Clara [SARS-CoV-2 Sewage Monitoring Data](https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater).

Background on this project:

- [Building a Covid sewage Twitter bot](https://simonwillison.net/2022/Apr/18/covid-sewage/)

- [Building Mastodon bots with GitHub Actions and toot](https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/mastodon-bots-github-actions)

## How it works

The bot runs using [scheduled GitHub Actions workflows](https://github.com/simonw/covidsewage-bot/tree/main/.github/workflows).

It uses these three tools:

- [shot-scraper](https://datasette.io/tools/shot-scraper) to take the screenshot

- [tweet-images](https://github.com/simonw/tweet-images) to send the tweet

- [toot](https://toot.readthedocs.io/) to post to Mastodon

I wrote notes on [how to get credentials for a Twitter bot](https://til.simonwillison.net/twitter/credentials-twitter-bot).