Brighton Tide Post

Posts the latest Brighton Tide low tides to social media. Intended to replace brighton-tide-twitter eventually.

Currently implemented:

• Mastodon
• Twitter

See also:

• Brighton Tide on Amazon Alexa
• Brighton Tide on Mastodon
• Brighton Tide on Twitter
• Brighton Tide on Google Home
• A partial implementation in Rust.
• Data gathering via close source.
• Google Home code is closed source.
• Alexa code is closed source.

Running this code

The data is stored in DynamoDB. You'll need a Dynamo table and tokens set to read from the table. The table format is as per the TideRow case class in this code base.

MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN=aaa AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=bbb AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=ccc sbt
sbt> run

...without the MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN the post text will be printed only.

To include a post to Twitter, run with the environment variables of: TWIT_CONSUMER_KEY, TWIT_TOKEN_VALUE, TWIT_CONSUMER_SECRET, TWIT_ACCESS_TOKEN.

Build and run using Docker

docker build -t tide-post .
docker run -it --rm --name running-post tide-post