Twitter bot for the FDA recall page

[wdoug]

What is the idea

"Another smaller, but still neat, project that we’ve tossed around is a Twitter bot that scrapes the FDA recall page for shady stuff and posts it for the world to see. Would be ideal to also have an admin panel for this in order to update certain scraping parameters (keyword, company name, etc). I’ve messed around with a twitter bot a bit using the chatterbot gem, but I haven’t implemented a web-scraper with it. Also, mine kept being shut down by Twitter for unknown reasons, so go figure."

-- Daniel Lusk, Head of IT at The Humane League

Why

[What is the specific issue that this is solving and why is it worth solving?
What is the evidence that it is an issue in our community?]

Potential Partner(s)?

• The Humane League

Additional Background Context

• This idea was pitched by Daniel Lusk from The Humane League. If you're interested in this project you can reach out to me (Willy) to get in contact

Details

Champion: [To be filled out during exploration stage]
Repo: [To be filled out during exploration stage]
Waffle Board: [To be filled out during exploration stage]