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:
- Pull out data from BC Child Care dataset
- Check daily for any new vacancies
- Generate a summary of new vacancies
- report vacancies to Mastodon / Twitter
This bot is built following Matt Dray's @londonmapbot.
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.
- Create a mastdon account for your bot botsin.space
- add api keys as secrets (see github actions)
- Write r script to use
rtoot
to post to mastodon - set up github actions cron job to run daily
TBD