Vaccine progress bar Twitter Bot

This is a somewhat modified version of @impf_progress it reads its data from ourworldindata.org, so it can easily be used to tweet the stats for any country or region.

If you want to use local sources (usually more up-to-date) write your own getCurrentdata() function. You can see an example of this in tweetbot_it, where I get the data from covid19-opendata-vaccini.

Script Setup

• Create an app at the Twitter Developer site and create app tokens and keys
• Edit twitter.cfg and put in your Twitter Consumer and Access tokens/keys
• Make sure state.cfg is writable, this is where the last Tweet and its values are stored so to not Tweet repeated messages
• Edit state.cfg to select your favourite country/area
• Install Tweepy and Pandas
• Change DRY_RUN = True in run_bot.py to False when you are done testing

# Install tweepy directly
pip3 install tweepy pandas

# Alternatively, use requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements.txt

The script can now simply be called like this:

python run_bot.py

Crontab Setup

Running a cronjob with virtualenv:

0 12 * * * cd /home/you/impf-progress-bot/ && /bin/python /home/you/impf-progress-bot/run_bot.py

Data Source

Mathieu, E., Ritchie, H., Ortiz-Ospina, E. et al. A global database of COVID-19 vaccinations. Nat Hum Behav (2021)

License

MIT