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Fitzwilliam Museum Twitter Bot - random Art work

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This twitter bot runs from a simple R script. This script polls a random json endpoint from the collection database and then assembles a tweet with:

  • Link to record
  • An image of the artwork
  • The title(s) of the artwork
  • The maker(s) of the artwork
  • Accession number

This currently pulls just from the works in Prints and Drawings with a picture attached, this may change.

The bot tweets at https://twitter.com/fitzArtBot

How this works

To make this work, a Twitter App needs to be generated with elevated access to the V2 API (read and write) - apply for access from essential after generation. Once you have set up the twitter account, you need to set the 4 keys referred to in the R script as secrets in the github repo settings. Then the action will be executed every 6 hours and send a tweet.

The endpoint from which JSON is retrieved can be found at https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/random and is also used to run https://random.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

License

GPL V3 for code Content within the Fitz API that this calls data from is CC-0 for metadata, CC-BY-NC-ND for images.