brianmitchl / packagebot

A Twitter bot for tracking a package

packageBot

A Twitter bot for tracking a package with UPS. Make an account here: https://www.ups.com/upsdeveloperkit

Install

Install node 6 or higher, then run

npm install

Configure

All configuration takes place in config.js and a JSON file.

1. Add your packages to a JSON file. An example can be found in sample.packages.json

• This file is used as a cache during operation. The bot will write additional data about each package as the location changes.
• New packages may be added without stopping the bot.
• Any package with the delivered set to true can be removed as it will no longer be Tweeted.

2. Add your Twitter consumer and access token keys and secrets to the twitter object
3. Add your UPS licenseNumber, userId, and password to the ups object
4. Edit the minor options as you desire
   • packagesFileName = 'packages.json' the filename where you store your packages
   • refreshTime = 3600000 refresh time in milliseconds
   • hashtag = '#packageBot' optional hashtag to be appended to a tweet. Set it to be an empty string if you don't want a hashtag
   • title = 'My' The ownership title of the package. This prefixes the package name. If you run this bot on its own account, it might make sense to say, for example, 'Brian's magic eraser has arrived...', where if you're running the bot on your own account, it might make more sense to use the first person, for example, 'My magic eraser has arrived...'

Run

npm start

Deploy With Docker

Build the container with:

docker build -t packagebot .

Run the container with:

docker run --name packageBot -d packagebot