Drumbeat/MoJo/hackfest/berlin/projects/MoJoNewsBot
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Project Name
MoJoNewsBot
Project Lead
Big Goal for MoJo Hackfest
Identify and add modules for data that would be useful to the newsroom
Key steps toward goal
- 1. Identify data
- 2. Scrape data into ScraperWiki
- 3. Write module for MoJoNewsBot
Project Status
- IRC chat bot with modules for:
- 1. Searching Google
- 2. Search Google News
- 3. Wikipedia first paragraph
- 4. WikiDictionary lookup
- 5. Weather checker
- 6. Headline retrieval from The Times, Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters
- 7. Twitter trends lookup for location
- 8. Twitter search for a given number of tweets
- 9. Last tweet from input account
- 10. Special Advisers gifts and hospitalities from CSV downloads on Cabinet Office site via ScraperWiki
(functions = remind, calculator, translate, stats, help)
Pending needs
- 1. Debug
- 2. Put on server using DotCloud
- 3. Place in rooms for multi-user testing
- 4. During scraping events, make modules
Links
Link for more info: blog post
Link for video demo: video
Link to source code: GitHub
Next Steps
- From here I would like to:
- Debug chat bot
- Put onto server and leave in HacksHackers IRC room - test stability and scalability
Places where this project might be tested include:
- During tour events with ScraperWiki, identify good data streams for a newsroom to be able to query and make modules for MoJoNewsBot
- Put into chat rooms for specific newsrooms and include modules for their data streams
