fexd/saskvaccine

A bot to track COVID-19 vaccine age eligibility in Saskatchewan. https://twitter.com/saskvaccine (No Longer Active)

No Longer Active

As of June 24, 2021 residents aged 12+ are elligible for 1st & 2nd dose of #COVID19SK vaccine. This bot will stop tweeting until more information is released about residents under 12.

This repo may have some code cleanup done so it is easier to fork, but should be considered inactive.

According to Twitter Analytics between April 28 and June 24, 2021 (58 day period) @saskvaccine earned 25.4K impressions (439 impressions per day) and had a maximum of 148 followers. Detailed analytics are available in ./tweet_activity in .csv format.

Sask Vaccine Bot

🤖 Bot to track COVID-19 vaccine age eligibility in #SK
⏰ Tweets when info changes & every morning around 8 am
📢 Retweets @SKGov & @SaskHealth
💻 Maintained by @FeXd
🐣 https://twitter.com/saskvaccine

⁉️ How & Why

Sask Vaccine Bot is a Twitter bot dedicated to tracking COVID-19 vaccine age eligibility in Saskatchewan.
It is written in Python 3 and uses the following packages:

• urllib to pull information from the Appointments for COVID-19 Vaccine Website
• Tweepy to read tweets from @SKGov / @SaskHealth and to tweet / retweet to @saskvaccine
• python-dotenv to set environment variables from a .env file

The Saskatchewan Health Authority does a fairly good job updating everyone via their website and twitter. But many people in Saskatchewan (myself included) are just looking for one thing... when can we sign up to get vaccinated!?

People can subscribe to notifications from @saskvaccine for up to date COVID-19 vaccine age eligibility, rather than feeling the need to refresh the Appointments for COVID-19 Vaccine Website or their twitter feed over and over again.

💻 Dependencies & Installation

• Python 3 with pip
  • run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Twitter Authentication Tokens via a Twitter Developer Account
  • Create a .env file with these tokens in the root of the directory
  • (Tweepy has good documentation on retrieving those here)
  • (tweepy_setup.py has also been provided to help set up tokens)
• Run the test suite (don't worry it won't Tweet)
  • run python main_test.py
• Run Sask Vaccine main script
  • run python main.py

🐞 Bugs, Questions, & Comments

Please feel free to provide feedback through any of the below methods:

• open an issue
• tweet @FeXd or @saskvaccine
• email [email protected]

💡 Official Government Websites

This tool has been created independently and is not associated with the Government of Saskatchewan or the Saskatchewan Health Authority. Below are links to official websites for more information about COVID-19, vaccination, and more.

• http://stickittocovid.ca
• https://saskatchewan.ca/covid-19
• https://saskatchewan.ca/covid19-vaccine
• https://saskhealthauthority.ca/
• https://twitter.com/SKGov
• https://twitter.com/SaskHealth

📜 License

Copyright (c) 2021 Arlin Schaffel

Licensed under the MIT License, available here: https://github.com/FeXd/saskvaccine/blob/main/LICENSE.md