CoinForTechConf

Worry less about $$$ and focus on attending an upcoming tech conference!

This bot will retweet info about tech conference scholarships.

Project Goal:

A bot that automatically searches for mentions of technology conference scholarships at set time intervals. Yielded results are automatically retweeted.

Target Audience:

Aspiring and current tech students who wouldn't be able to attend tech conferences without financial assistance

Personal Learning Goals:

• Scheduling recurring, automated tasks with cron (and perhaps Whenever gem assistance)
• Getting a bot to post all by itself (you can do it, little bot!)
• Learning more about the bot community. Release the bots! 👾👾👾

Technologies / Frameworks / Patterns

• Rails
• Possibly chatterbot. I need to research more about this library
• cron
• Possibly whenever
• Twitter API
• VCR for testing

Tech Dependencies

• My bot's life depends on Twitter! We'll need to play well with their TOS.

Skill Dependences

• This will be my first foray into bots, #botlyfe, and being a #botALLY. Wish me luck! I'll need to dig through bot community forums, guides, and projects for implementation ideas
• My little bot's health will depend on TDD

What Success Looks Like

• Getting CoinForTechConf to retweet relevant scholarship info by itself
• Avoid retweeting offensive and irrelevant content

Added Fun

• Filtering search results by certain criteria: Number of favorites and retweets, very specific keywords, etc
• Having CoinForTechConf add its own hashtags to retweets for easier sorting
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Having CoinForTechConf remember deadlines mentioned and tweet out periodic application reminders

Resources (List Ongoing)

• Twitter Automation Rules and Best Practices
• botALLY hashtag
• Twitter Dev Forums