COVID Vaccination Twitter Bot (@covacc_global & @covacc_usa)

By Gamal Mohamed

Description: A Twitter bot that pulls world COVID vaccination records from a GitHub source and tweets comparisons and fun facts of country progress

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Python Dependencies & Libraries

• Python v3.9
• Tweepy - For accessing Twitter API and handling Tweeting functions
• pandas - For reading csv from GitHub and to provide data processing
• collections - For the OrderedDict class; for getting the list of counries from the GitHub csv
• enum - Enumeration of tweet types and status
• Requests-OAuthlib - Perform oAuth authentication for bot accounts
• emoji-country-flag - Get country flag emoji to add pizzazz to tweets (using v1.2.3)

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Accomplished So Far

• Pulls data from GitHub CSV and parses list of countries
• Uses authentication keys for account access (tweets, profile changes, etc.)
• oAuth handling for tweeting on behalf of bot account (@covacc_global and @covacc_usa)

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Planned Features

• Get total population data from trusted source
• Analyze log entries for tweetable facts
• Generate bar chart comparing country vaccination progress (per 100 citizens)
• Begin tweeting!
• Automatically retweet articles related to the COVID vaccine? Or maybe retweeting articles in a semi-supervised fashion