Apollo 11 at 50 - A Simple Twitter Bot
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The document describes how the author created a Twitter bot called @apollo11at50 that tweets the Apollo 11 mission timeline in real time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the mission. It details how the author scraped NASA's timeline data, used Ruby and Twitter's API to code the bot, sourced NASA photos, and deployed the bot to tweet the remaining events, encouraging people to follow @apollo11at50 to see the concluding tweets.
Apollo 11 at 50 - A Simple Twitter Bot
- 2. Apollo 11 Celebrated its 50th Anniversary Last Month
- 3. I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE ORIGINAL MISSION IN 1969
- 4. In 1969 I was a BIG Fan of Anything connected to SPACE
- 6. In 2019 I’M STILL a BIG Fan of Anything connected to SPACE
- 7. SUNday 14th July I’m sitting at My Desktop working on My Talks
- 8. “There should be a Twitterbot celebrating Apollo 11”
- 9. “It could TWEET the Mission Timeline In REAL time”
- 10. “Writing That might be more interesting than writing talks”
- 13. @apollo11at50
- 14. How to build a Twitterbot (In Four Minutes)
- 16. DATA
- 19. Screen-Scraping
- 21. Screen-Scraping Data Munging Stick in a database
- 22. CODE
- 26. IMAGES
- 27. NO-ONE EVER Accused NASA of NOT TAKING ENOUGH PHOTOS
- 28. BONUS: All of NASA’s Photos are Available for REUSE
- 29. DEPLOYMENT
- 31. NAH
- 33. First COUPLE OF TWEETS DIDN’t WORK
- 34. I AM NOT A SYSADMIN, OK!
- 38. UNICODE FAIL!
- 39. THE MOST IMPORTANT TWEET IN THE SERIES
- 40. EASY FIX THOUGH
- 44. You’ll have to Follow To see when They appear
- 45. @apollo11at50
- 46. @davorg