Twitter bot that monitors fine dust pollution for a given area or specific places using luftdaten.info community sensors. Tweets when PM10 emissions surpass 50 µg/m³ or PM2.5 emissions surpass 25 µg/m³. See also further information about fine dust pollution in Germany provided by the German federal environmental protection agency. Inspired by @FeinstaubFR. Tweets look like this:
⚠ Increased fine dust pollution in Leverkusen: Bürrig, Schlebusch, Rheindorf, +1! PM10 4.98 µg/m³ (Eisholz) http://deutschland.maps.luftdaten.info/#14/51.046/7.009
If you'd like to setup this bot for your own city, village or region, just let me know, I'm happy to help!
Twitter accounts that currently use this project:
You need to have git
and nodejs
installed.
git clone https://github.com/juliuste/feinstaub-bot.git
cd feinstaub-bot
npm install
If you want to adapt the bot to watch your municipalities sensors instead, you can simply do so by changing the config file/s:
config/default.json
{
"regionName": "Berlin", // name of your region/city as displayed in the tweets
"twitter": { // your Twitter API credentials **
"key": "X",
"key_secret": "X",
"token": "X",
"token_secret": "X"
},
"thresholds": {
"PM10": 50, // PM10 limit in µg/m³
"PM2.5": 25 // PM2.5 limit in µg/m³
},
"requestInterval": 5, // interval for the fine dust API checks in minutes
"notificationInterval": 180, // interval for the tweets (max. 1 tweet per type [PM10 / PM2.5] in 3h) in minutes
"regions": [ // list of german "Gemeindeschlüssel" keys, can be empty *
"110000000000"
],
"sensors": [
{
"id": 817,
"name": "Rheindorf"
},
{
"id": 3081,
"name": "Eisholz"
}
], // list of additional sensors, can be empty
"sensorLimit": 2, // number of sensors that have to surpass the threshold in order to trigger the bot (helps avoiding false alarm caused by one malfunctioning sensor)
"language": "en", // tweet language, currently supported: `de` and `en`
"debug": false // if true, the script won't send tweets but log to the console in higher frequency instead
}
* If you only know your municipalities 7-digit key, just add '0000' for the 11-digit key. Example (Berlin): 11000000 -> 110000000000. You can give multiple municipality keys.
** Even though you can add your Twitter API credentials in default.json
, it's strongly recommended to store them in a seperate file called production.json
which should look like this:
{
"twitter": { // your Twitter API credentials **
"key": "X",
"key_secret": "X",
"token": "X",
"token_secret": "X"
}
}
If you want to run the bot using production.json
, just execute npm run start
.
If you found a bug, want to propose a feature or feel the urge to complain about your life, feel free to visit the issues page.