Dogpack

Dogpack is a Twitter bot which automates announcing and confirming meetups of DogpatchJS. It will:

• Tweet announcing DogpatchJS the morning of the meetup
• Tweet a reminder the day before the meetup
• Accept RSVPs in the form of DMs containing emoji
• Tweet a confirmation or cancellation of the event depending on how many RSVPs are received

Setup

Dogpack is hosted on AWS Lambda. To set up your own Dogpack:

1. Install dependencies: NPM_CONFIG_CHROMIUM_CHANNEL=dev PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=1 npm i

2. Create a new account on AWS

   1. Create a new user with "AdministratorAccess" privileges.
   2. Save Amazon credentials npx serverless config credentials --provider aws --key KEY --secret SECRET --profile dogpackProd.

3. Create a new Twitter app key, setting callback URL to http://localhost:3000/callback.

4. Copy messages.json.sample to messages.json, and customize with your meetup details.

5. Authenticate with Twitter:

   1. Run node ./scripts/setupTwitter.js CONSUMER_KEY CONSUMER_SECRET > ../dogpack-keys.prod.json and open http://localhost:3000 in a web browser.
   2. Click the link and authorize your Twitter app.

6. Deploy: npx serverless --stage prod deploy

   1. Note the HTTPs endpoint URL for your webhook in the output. It might be of the form: https://xxx.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/hook-xxx. Use this in the following step.

7. Set up Twitter's DM Webhook: run ./scripts/setupWebhook.js ../dogpack-keys.prod.json https://your-webhook-https-url

   You should now have a functioning bot! Test it out by triggering the "postEvent" and "postRSVPs" functions via npx serverless --stage prod invoke -f your-function-name -l