## # 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) # 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$primary_attachment <- NULL } return(x) } gfk_requests <- lapply(gfk_requests, drop_image) # Put the requests together in a data frame gfk_requests <- bind_rows(gfk_requests) #### Tweeting # You now need a developer account to set up an app, which takes some time. # Do that here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/apply-for-access.html # A workaround could be to set up a Mastodon account and then auto-tweet # using the fantastic https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/. # Read authentication values from ini file # Don't commit real values to git! auth <- read.ini("auth.ini") setup_twitter_oauth(consumer_key = auth$twitter$consumer_key, access_token = auth$twitter$access_token, consumer_secret = auth$twitter$consumer_secret, access_secret = auth$twitter$access_secret) # https://rcrastinate.blogspot.com/2018/05/send-tweets-from-r-very-short.html # After tweeting, write a small text file that has the last timestamp that was tweeted. Use that for grabbing future requests. #### Tooting # https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/08/easy-guide-to-building-mastodon-bots/ # Might be able to use this natively: https://github.com/ThomasChln/mastodon library(mastodon) auth <- read.ini("auth.ini") mastodon_token <- login(auth$mastodon$server, auth$mastodon$email, auth$mastodon$password) post_status(mastodon_token, 'I posted this status with the wonderful https://github.com/ThomasChln/mastodon #rstats package.')