Twitter bot: happyspacebot

5 minute presentation about @happyspacebot for Twitter

Transcript

1. @happyspacebot Twitter bot by Donia Robinson that tweets encouraging quote and image
2. Introduction First commit 11/18/2016 Provide post-election encouragement Learn some new skills (Node, Heroku)
3. Get a Quote • Construct GET request according to the API specs • Submit GET request to API • API sends back a quote Let’s go get a quote!
4. Get a Photo • Construct GET request according to the API specs • Submit GET request to API • API sends back image information
5. Combine Quote and Photo What information will I Tweet? • Quote • Author • Photo credits
6. Tweet • Node application running on Heroku • Text overlaid on image using Cloudinary Let’s go tweet!
7. Resources Project Repo https://github.com/doniarobinson/happyspacebot happyspacebot on Twitter https://twitter.com/happyspacebot Forismatic Quote API https://forismatic.com/en/api/ NASA Image API https://api.nasa.gov/index.html Collective list of public JSON APIs for use in web development https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis Me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/doniamae