CoSkiTrip

Reddit Bot for monitoring and alerting on Colorado ski resort route closures, incidents, and alerts based on live CDOT data

Contributing

• Fork the repository
• Make your desired changes in ./functions/app.js
• List yourself as a contributor on the reddit post by updating ./functions/templates/reddit.md
• Note: ./functions/index.js is for cloud infrastructure configuration and the GCP entrypoint, changes here usually won't be approved
• Open a pull request and tag @patrickdundas

Don't know how to code? Submit a feature request here

Running Locally

Prerequisites

• Get a CDOT API Key
  • Generate a CDOT API Key Here
  • Learn more about the CDOT Data Feed
  • CDOT API Docs
• Setup required environment variables
  • CDOT_API_KEY: Your CDOT API Key
• Install Node.JS 20

Run the app

$ cd functions
$ npm install
$ node ./runLocal.js

When running locally, reddit markdown is generated as a file at ./functions/output.md

Development Roadmap

[ ] Better sorting of route lane direction - "Both Directions" first, then a definite order of N/E/S/W
[ ] Sort incidents by last updated time
[ ] Filtering of certain incidents to "notifications" for conciseness, such as "chain law enforced" or "MEXL Open"
[ ] Ask the community what data they would find useful (destinations, routes, etc)
[ ] Go live in /r/COSnow

Infrastructure Information

• Infrastructure is paid for and managed by @patrickdundas
• The app runs on Firebase / Google Cloud Platform Cloud Functions, and is executed every 10 minutes
• PRs modifying the firebase config or firebase ./functions/index.js files usually won't be approved
• Infrastrucure managers can update relevant environment vars with firebase functions:secrets:set VAR_NAME
• Reddit access tokens should be configured at https://not-an-aardvark.github.io/reddit-oauth-helper/ (ie. if the app connection to reddit throws a 400, the access/refresh tokens can be updated here)