:squirrel: Stalking @wesbos on Twitter for Stickers

If you are like me, you love Wes Bos - he is Boss ❗ His courses have been helpful because he has makes things fun and interesting. This also means you are one of 110,000 other people in the world who have tried to order stickers from him only to find, well, they are already sold out! 💩

Well, be denied no more.

This app combines a little twitter stalking with some twilio sms magic.

Everytime a new tweet from @wesbos includes the term 'sticker', this app will send me an SMS.

I have set up calls to the twitter REST API once per hour looking for new tweets. If a new tweet is found that meets my query, me phone in me pocket will start a-buzzing. 💬

How can you install this yourself?

1. Set up an app in twitter by going to https://dev.twitter.com, get your consumer key, consumer secret, access tokey key, and access token secret.
   • When I set this up on my local machine, I save my keys to a file named config.js and import it into my main file. When deploying, you will save all your keys as environment variables.
2. Get a twilio dev account by going to https://www.twilio.com/, get your Account SID and Auth Token, which you will also save in config.js and later as environment variables, then purchase your first phone number, which only runs $1/month and charges you only a penny to send a message.
3. Fork and clone this repo, then run npm install or yarn if you use yarn.
4. Use your favorite host to deploy. Currently, the package.json and Procfile are set up for a worker to run on Heroku.

Update Regarding Heroku Deployment && Data Persistence.

On a local machine, using the built-in fs node-module is an easy way to manage data persistence. However, when deploying to heroku, I found that this system would not work.

Therefore I refactored my code for data persistence with MongoDB, and utilized the mLab MongoDB :: Mongodb add-on.