Set up to extend to other cities

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Set up to extend to other cities

Closed this issue 4 years ago · 15 comments

and document how! See #10 (comment)

Yes!

Answer 1 · 2020-02-25T16:52:23.000Z

Ok I've been thinking about this and I've come around to running all the Twitter accounts from a single Heroku app—the con of keeping all those Twitter API keys (4 for each bot) straight in one app is outweighed by the pro of not having to manage multiple apps, as @potash was saying.

My general idea of how this could work is to have a cities list in bot.py that includes all the current cities we're handling. When bot.py is run it checks each of those. Twitter API key names should be something like the form <CITY>_KEY_NAME and be grabbed in turn for each city selected.

Those keys and actual Twitter accounts will still have to be individually created.

Answer 2 · 2020-02-25T19:38:01.000Z

can one email have multiple twitter accounts or do we need to make email addresses like nyc@istheweatherweird.com, etc. ?

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Answer 3 · 2020-02-25T23:23:58.000Z

I usually do this with my gmail account using their aliases, where you can add a + and it will automatically forward. Like this: https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/08/17/how-the-plus-sign-can-save-your-gmail-inbox-from-becoming-a-pit-of-doom/

So we could make istheweatherweird@gmail.com, forward to somewhere, and then just use istheweatherweird+[CITY_NAME]@gmail.com to set up accounts

Answer 4 · 2020-02-25T23:27:09.000Z

sounds like a good solution

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Answer 5 · 2020-03-03T16:00:21.000Z

This is just about ready to go. What do you think are the top priority cities? Maybe we could start with Chicago, NYC, LA, and Houston

Answer 6 · 2020-03-03T16:10:31.000Z

Chicago, NYC, and Boston get the most traffic on the website but those people don't necessarily use twitter. I'll trust your judgement but definitely Chicago and NYC. Also should the repo be renamed? itww_twitter or istheweatherweird-twitter or whatever you prefer

Answer 7 · 2020-03-03T17:00:00.000Z

Cool good to know! I changed the name to itww_bot before seeing your comment. Does that name work for you?

Answer 8 · 2020-03-03T17:07:24.000Z

Did one of you already grab istheweatherweird@gmail.com? Gmail is telling me it's taken.

Answer 9 · 2020-03-03T18:27:33.000Z

Great

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Answer 10 · 2020-03-03T18:54:48.000Z

huh i don't remember doing that but maybe @jsbj does? weirdly when i try to login it says the account doesn't exist (i was trying to see if i could reset password etc). otoh this email address won't be public, just for creating the twitter accounts right? in that case the name doesn't matter

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Answer 11 · 2020-03-04T17:48:08.000Z

Would one of you like to make a gmail account to use for this? I set up 3 new cities with my own email to make getting through the developer application easier, but if you want to switch them at this point we can do that.

Answer 12 · 2020-03-04T17:50:53.000Z

Here's a list with all the new bot accounts! https://twitter.com/i/lists/1235255384014716928

If all goes well, once each city hits 6pm today they should each tweet.

Answer 13 · 2020-03-04T20:39:57.000Z

Exciting

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Answer 14 · 2020-03-05T23:10:36.000Z

Seems to be working, can this be closed?