A Twitter bot that tweets Bicyclist and Pedestrian related crashes, using Citizen data.
npm install
to fetch and install dependencies.
To run: node index.js --location cityNameOne
, where cityNameOne
is the name of the city you want to fetch and tweet data for (see keys
section for more information).
To use, create a keys.file
with the following format for each city you want to fetch and tweet data for:
module.exports = {
cityNameOne: {
consumer_key: 'consumer_key',
consumer_secret: 'consumer_secret',
access_token: 'access_token',
access_token_secret: 'access_token_secret',
lowerLatitude: 'lowerLatitude',
lowerLongitude: 'lowerLongitude',
upperLatitude: 'upperLatitude',
upperLongitude: 'upperLongitude',
timeZone: 'America/New_York',
},
cityNameTwo: {
consumer_key: 'consumer_key',
consumer_secret: 'consumer_secret',
access_token: 'access_token',
access_token_secret: 'access_token_secret',
lowerLatitude: 'lowerLatitude',
lowerLongitude: 'lowerLongitude',
upperLatitude: 'upperLatitude',
upperLongitude: 'upperLongitude',
timeZone: 'America/Los_Angeles',
},
...
};
To get the consumer_key
, consumer_secret
, access_token
, and access_token_secret
values, you'll need to sign up for a Twitter Developer account.
To get the lowerLatitude
, lowerLongitude
, upperLatitude
, and upperLongitude
values, you'll need to go to the Citizen explore page. Open up the developer tools in your browser, go to the network tab, and select the city you want to see incidents for. Select the trending
API call and the latitude and longitude values are the parameters in the URL.
The timeZone
value is used for converting incident times (Citizen stores them in UTC) to the city's local time. The timeZone
value for your city can be found here - use the value in the TZ database name
column. If your city isn't listed just use the closest major city (ex. for Philadelphia use America/New_York).