dallas-alerts

About

This bot retrieves active police incidents from dallasopendata and posts all active incidents to a Bluesky account.

Hosting

Alerts available at @dallas-alerts.bsky.social.

This bot runs on AWS Lambda every 2 minutes.

Redis instance hosted by Redis Enterprise.

Deduplication

Making a request to Blueky for a duplicate incident is deduplicated by using a Redis cache.

Development

To get OpenData secrets, see Socrata: Generating an App Token.

Run Redis locally at localhost:6379, or provide remote Redis location via the REDIS_(URL|USERNAME|PASSWORD) environment variables.

nvm use
npm install
npm run build
DALLAS_ALERTS_OPENDATA_TOKEN=${your_opendata_token} \
  DALLAS_ALERTS_BLUESKY_IDENTIFIER=${your_bluesky_identifier} \
  DALLAS_ALERTS_BLUESKY_PASSWORD=${your_bluesky_password} \
  npm run start

Building and Packaging for AWS Lambda

./create_zip.sh

Then upload to aWS Lambda manually Not the most automated way: