Impfstatus Fortschritt Twitter Bot

This is the code that runs the account @impf_progress on Twitter, tweeting German vaccination updates with an ASCII-art style loading bar, inspired by @year_progress.

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Script Setup

• Create an app at the Twitter Developer site and create app tokens and keys
• Edit twitter.cfg and put in your Twitter Consumer and Access tokens/keys
• Change DRY_RUN to yes if you just want to test the script without actually sending any tweets
• Make sure state.cfg is writable, this is where the last Tweet and its values are stored so to not Tweet repeated messages
• Install the Tweepy library

# Create venv
py -3 venv venv

# Activate venv: Windows
venv\Scripts\activate.bat 

# Activate venv: Linux / MacOS
source venv/bin/activate

# Install tweepy directly
pip3 install tweepy

# Alternatively, use requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

The script can now simply be called like this:

python bot.py
# or
py -3 bot.py

Crontab Setup

Running a cronjob with virtualenv:

0 12 * * * cd /home/you/impf-progress-bot/ && /home/you/impf-progress-bot/venv/bin/python /home/you/impf-progress-bot/bot.py

Data Source

The script uses data from Deutschland_Impfquoten_COVID-19.csv, provided by the Robert Koch-Institut under CC-BY 4.0 International.

License

All source code and documentation in this repository is licensed under the MIT license.