## # R script to get data from PublicStuff # Note that the API version at https://www.publicstuff.com/developers#!/API is v2.0, # but this only includes requests up to a certain date. Use v2.1 for recent requests. library(jsonlite) library(rjson) library(dplyr) library(twitteR) library(ini) library(mastodon) library(RSQLite) # TODO Generalize to remove gfk_ from these variable names # Grab city view for Grand Forks gfk <- rjson::fromJSON(file="https://www.publicstuff.com/api/2.1/city_view?space_id=15174") ## Make a data frame of request_type IDs and names gfk_request_types <- as.data.frame(t(sapply(gfk$response$request_types$request_types, function(x) c(x$request_type$id, x$request_type$name)))) # Add column names names(gfk_request_types) <- c("request_type_id","request_type_name") # Loop through request types and get n most recent in each category # Unix timestamp from a week ago today <- as.numeric(as.POSIXct(Sys.time())) week_ago <- today-604800 # For all request types, get (at most) 10 requests from the last week from the PublicStuff API. gfk_requests <- lapply(gfk_request_types$request_type_id, function(x) jsonlite::fromJSON(paste0("https://www.publicstuff.com/api/2.1/requests_list?request_type_id=", x,"&after_timestamp=",week_ago,"&limit=10"))) # Pull out exactly the data we need gfk_requests <- lapply(gfk_requests, function(x) x$response$requests$request) # Drop null list items gfk_requests <- Filter(Negate(is.null), gfk_requests) # Drop images (in fact, there is image_thumbnail in the data we want, # and we can just replace small_ with large_ to get a bigger image later!) drop_image <- function(x){ if(class(x$primary_attachment) == "data.frame") { x$primary_attachment <- NULL } return(x) } gfk_requests <- lapply(gfk_requests, drop_image) # Put the requests together in a data frame requests <- bind_rows(gfk_requests) # Add posted column requests$posted <- NA # Sort by date #gfk_requests <- gfk_requests[order(gfk_requests$date_created),] ## Store requests in a database # Create DB if it doesn't exist, otherwise connect mydb <- dbConnect(RSQLite::SQLite(), "requests.sqlite") # See if table exists, then get existing rows back if(nrow(dbGetQuery(mydb, "SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' AND name='requests'")) > 0){ rows.exist <- dbGetQuery(mydb, 'SELECT id FROM requests')$id } else rows.exist <- NA # Only add rows that don't exist, by request ID rows.add <- requests[!requests$id %in% rows.exist,] # Add the rows dbWriteTable(mydb, "requests", rows.add,append=T) #### Tweeting # You now need a developer account to set up an app, which takes some time. # Do that here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access.html # A workaround could be to set up a Mastodon account and then auto-tweet # using the fantastic https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/. # Read authentication values from ini file # Don't commit real values to git! auth <- read.ini("auth.ini") # setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key = auth$twitter$consumer_key, # access_token = auth$twitter$access_token, # consumer_secret = auth$twitter$consumer_secret, # access_secret = auth$twitter$access_secret) # https://rcrastinate.blogspot.com/2018/05/send-tweets-from-r-very-short.html #### Tooting # https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/08/easy-guide-to-building-mastodon-bots/ # Might be able to use this natively: https://github.com/ThomasChln/mastodon auth <- read.ini("auth.ini") mastodon_token <- login(auth$mastodon$server, auth$mastodon$email, auth$mastodon$password) # Each time this script runs, take the oldest n requests, post them, and mark them in the db. requests.new <- dbGetQuery(mydb, 'SELECT * FROM requests WHERE posted IS NULL ORDER BY date_created') # Set number of posts allowed at once. Will need to adjust according to cron # schedule and number of posts coming in daily so you don't get behind. posts_at_once <- 3 for(i in 1:posts_at_once){ request <- requests.new[i,] # Post one selected request if(nchar(request$image_thumbnail) > 1){ download.file(gsub("small","large",request$image_thumbnail), 'temp.jpg', mode="wb") post_media(mastodon_token, paste0(request$title, " at ", request$address, ": ", request$description), file = "temp.jpg") } else { post_status(mastodon_token, paste0(request$title, " at ", request$address, ": ", request$description)) } # After tweeting or tooting, mark what has been posted. # https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSQLite/vignettes/RSQLite.html # https://stackoverflow.com/a/43978368/2152245 # Update posted column as needed dbExecute(mydb, "UPDATE requests SET posted = :posted where id = :id", params=data.frame(posted=TRUE, id=request$id)) } # Get out of the database dbDisconnect(mydb) unlink("requests.sqlite")