rafapereirabr/spain-munic-bot

🤖 Twitter bot: random municipalities of Spain 🇪🇸 with {CatastRo} posted with {rtweet} via a GitHub Action

spain-munic-bot 🇪🇸🤖

A Twitter bot written in R

I tweet a random map of a Spanish town together with its name, province, and autonomous community (and a inset map of Spain showing the region and the community). The bot is set to run every 20 minutes.

I have a website!!

🏠 Buildings

I create a map of the Urban Growth of Spanish cities, based on the works of Dominic Royé: Visualize urban growth

Find here all the maps generated by the bot.

✈️ The journey

📦 R packages

Core packages used in the project are:

• {CatastRo} for the buildings.
• {mapSpain} for the location of the municipalities.
• {ggplot2} for plotting,
• {rtweet} for posting,

Other packages used are {sf}, {dplyr} and another common supporting packages.

This project uses {renv} for ensuring fully reproducibility across platforms.

🙌🏻 Credits

• Based on

  • italiancomuni, by @espinielli.

• Automation:

  • GitHub Actions as per @espinielli's GitHub Repo.

• sources:

  • mapSpain R package.
  • osmdata for the streets.

❔ How to run it

From the command line it is enough to run the following command:

    $ Rscript R/trigger.R

This will trigger R/01_create_map.R and compose the tweet.