Tefillin Twitter Bot

Description

A Twitter bot that tweets once a day if you've laid tefillin on appropriate days.

Based on https://github.com/serverless/examples/tree/master/aws-node-twitter-joke-bot

Installation

Run npm i to install dev dependencies
Run go mod vendor to install go dependencies

Setup

An environment file is required to contain the secret keys for the Twitter API and the joke API's URL. The naming convention for this file is [STAGE].env.json, for example dev.env.json. Copy it from env.json.dist

Testing

The bot can be invoked manually during development with the following command

# if you haven't built already...
make build 
make localinvoke

If you want to override what day the bot thinks it is, you can do so with

make localinvoke other_env="--env DATE_OVERRIDE2021-02-24"

Where the date you want to set it as is of the format yyyy-mm-dd

Deployment

Both the STAGE and REGION options can be used with this bot. If left out the bot will default to dev stage and eu-west-1 region.

Deploy command

make deploy

Set the region and stage: