VaccineBotTO

VaccineBotTO on Twitter

Project page: https://lindayi.me/vaccinebotto/

Dependencies

• python (tested on 3.7.4)
• selenium (tested on 3.141.0)
• undetected_chromedriver (tested on 2.2.1)
• tweepy (tested on 3.10.0)
• gspread (tested on 3.7.0)
• pytz (tested on 2019.3)

Setup

• For the detailed process of obtaining credentials for your Twitter account, please see https://realpython.com/twitter-bot-python-tweepy/#creating-twitter-api-authentication-credentials
• For the detailed process of obtaining credentials for your Google service account, please see https://docs.gspread.org/en/latest/oauth2.html

1. Update the following storage-related variables in config.py: BASE_PATH, SHEET_URL_ID, and optionally, CRAWLER_FILE.
2. Update the following credential variables in config.py: TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY, TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET, TWITTER_ACCESS_KEY, TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET, SHEET_KEY_FILE.
3. Update the CAPTCHA_KEY for Verto Health API in config.py. The Key can be obtained by going to the Verto Health booking site, solve the CAPTCHA once, land on the date selection page and inspect the network request to the availability endpoint when you select any date. It is the string value in the authorization request header, in the format of Bearer .... You only need to put what's after Bearer into the CAPTCHA_KEY variable in config.py.
4. (Optional) Modify any other configurations of interest in config.py to adjust the scope, behavior, and Tweet template.
5. Set up cron job to run the bot periodically. For example, */5 * * * * python3 /projects/vacbot/vacbot.py >> /projects/vacbot/output.log