https://github.com/xarantolus/rfa-launch-bot

Twitter bot that (re)tweets relevant information about Rocket Factory Augsburg
https://github.com/xarantolus/rfa-launch-bot

rfa rocket-factory-augsburg space twitter-bot wenhop

Last synced: 2 months ago
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Twitter bot that (re)tweets relevant information about Rocket Factory Augsburg

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/xarantolus/rfa-launch-bot
• Owner: xarantolus
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-09-08T11:34:02.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2022-03-10T21:52:02.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-02T21:43:58.968Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: rfa, rocket-factory-augsburg, space, twitter-bot, wenhop
• Language: Go
• Homepage: https://twitter.com/wenlauncherbot
• Size: 163 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

          
# rfa-launch-bot

This is a [Twitter bot](https://twitter.com/wenlauncherbot) that tries to (re)tweet interesting stuff about [Rocket Factory Augsburg](https://www.rfa.space/).

#### Retweets

It searches tweets from the following sources:

* Searches for certain [keywords](collector/search_stream.go)

* Location-tagged tweets around location(s) they use

  * [Augsburg](http://bboxfinder.com/#48.241138,10.656738,48.553887,11.188202)

  * [Andøya Space Center](http://bboxfinder.com/#68.856583,14.864502,69.377411,16.677246)

  * [Estrange Space Center](http://bboxfinder.com/#67.798869,20.041809,68.983031,21.676025)

* Accounts and lists the bot follows

It then checks for a bunch of keywords and retweets matching tweets. If it finds links that were retweeted within the last 12 hours, it will not retweet them again.

#### Tweets

The bot can also send tweets on its own under certain conditions:

* A YouTube live stream starts on the [official RFA channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6PsS67tBgDr5w22ZZSgI9w)

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If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to open an issue or contact the bot account directly.