/JWST-Observations

Twitter bot tracking the James Webb Space Telescope

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James Webb Space Telescope Observation Tracker

This is a tracking tool for the James Webb Space Telescope. Using observation schedules published by the Space Telescope Science Institute, it will query for new observation events and send tweets when one is occurring.

https://twitter.com/JWSTObservation

Usage

  1. Clone the repository to your machine.
  2. Install the necessary dependencies with pip install .
  3. Set up your .env file with Twitter credentials (specifically, 4 values are required, the API key/secret and access token/secret)
  4. Run the tool using python3 src/main.py