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Twitter bot: NZ police updates
I’ve subscribed to the email updates from our police for a while now. Given these updates were usually about things happening live, I thought it’d be useful to write something to post them into Twitter.
After about an hour of hacking, I had a quick and dirty script that did the job. There are three users you can follow if you are so inclined:
The script uses BeautifulSoup, a particularly excellent python library that ZachTwo reminded me about. I’d prefer it if the police released their updates in a better format, but screen-scraping will do for now.
Read on for the script. Consider it under a GPL licence.