mbta-slow-zone-bot

A Twitter & Mastodon & Slack bot to track MBTA slow zones

https://twitter.com/mbtaslowzonebot

https://better.boston/@mbtaslowzonebot

How to Run

Make sure you set the proper environmental variables then you can use the following commands to run the bot

$ curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
$ poetry install
$ poetry run python3 slowzones.py

Note you can use the --dry-run flag to run the both without posting to Twitter/Mastodon, and the --debug flag for additional logging

Linting

You can run the linter against any code changes with the following commands

$ curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
$ poetry install
$ poetry run flake8
$ poetry run black .

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