laurendorman/color-of-berlin

A Twitter bot that tweets the color of the sky in Berlin.

Color of Berlin

A Twitter bot that tweets the color of the sky in Berlin.

This bot fetches the latest image of the sky in Berlin, crops and places it on an HTML5 Canvas, picks the color and matches it against a color list, fills a new Canvas with the color that was matched, then tweets the color name, image, and HEX value.

Prerequisites

• Node
• npm
• Twitter account, Twitter developer account, and Twitter developer app
• Twitter app API keys and user access tokens

Initial set-up and installation

• Clone the project: git clone git@github.com:laurendorman/color-of-berlin.git
• Change to the project directory: cd color-of-berlin
• Install the project dependencies: npm install

Create .env file

In the project root, create an .env file or make a copy of the .env.example file, containing the following environment variables with the required values:

TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_KEY=
TWITTER_API_CONSUMER_SECRET=
TWITTER_API_TOKEN=
TWITTER_API_TOKEN_SECRET=
SOURCE_IMAGE=
LOCATION=

Send a tweet

• In the project directory, run node index.js from the command line to send a tweet.

Credits and Inspiration

Meteorology/sky photos sourced from Berlin's official tourism and congress organization webcams at visitBerlin.

Forked color list provided by @gekidoslair.