bcchildcarebot

Project Status: WIP – Initial development is in progress, but there has not yet been a stable, usable release suitable for the public.

What

Source for the BC child care vacancy bot placeholder for bot link built by Victor Yuan. The repo contains a GitHub Action that executes R code on every day to:

  1. Pull out data from BC Child Care dataset
  2. Check daily for any new vacancies
  3. Generate a summary of new vacancies
  4. report vacancies to Mastodon / Twitter

This bot is built following Matt Dray's @londonmapbot.

How to follow

For Mastodon, create an account on a Instance of your choosing (not botsin.space, which is only for bot accounts). Then follow and turn on notifications.

How it works

mastodon

  1. Create a mastdon account for your bot botsin.space
  2. add api keys as secrets (see github actions)
  3. Write r script to use rtoot to post to mastodon
  4. set up github actions cron job to run daily

twitter / x

TBD