COVID19 Twitter Bot

COVID19TwitterBot is a twitter bot that gives latest statics on COVID-19 in the world and Kenya. It tweets the updates after every 6 hours.

Features

Tweets the world and Kenya COVID19 stats after every 6 hours.

Contributing

This bot manipulates tweets by connecting to the Twitter API via the twit npm package. Please refer to the twit documentation to make substantial changes.

You can help by:

• Solving existing issues
• Adding more functionalities to the bot (see issues)
• Pointing out bugs/errors

For any of the above, please create an issue so that it can be addressed. New to GitHub issues? You can familiarize yourself with them using GitHub's guide.

Setup

• You will need your own Twitter account for testing, since the bot tweets from this account. Generate your Twitter API keys by creating a new app.
• Fork this repository.
• Create a config.js file and add in your API keys and details, like so:

module.exports = {
    consumer_key:         'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    consumer_secret:      'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    access_token:         'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    access_token_secret:  'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
    timeout_ms:           60*1000,  // optional HTTP request timeout to apply to all requests.
    strictSSL:            true,     // optional - requires SSL certificates to be valid.
}

Make the Change

• Run node index.js to start the bot. 👍
• Make your suggested change.
• Test your change.
• Create a pull request.

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License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2020 - Present LennyDennisMacharia