Turbovax

Turbovax gem helps you quickly stand up bots that can:

fetch data from vaccine websites
tweet appointment data
return structured appointment data

Note: the gem does not provide data storage or web server functionality on its own. Please see turbovax-web repo for an example of how to build those layers on top of the gem.

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Documentation

Detailed docs can be found at https://rubydoc.info/github/hugem/turbovax-gem.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'turbovax'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install turbovax

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and the created tag, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Usage

Initialize configuration:

Turbovax.configure do |config|
  config.twitter_credentials = {
    consumer_key: "CONSUMER_KEY",
    consumer_secret: "CONSUMER_SECRET",
    access_token: "ACCESS_TOKEN",
    access_token_secret: "ACCESS_TOKEN_SECRET"
  }
end

Create test portal:

class TestPortal < Turbovax::Portal
  name "Gotham City Clinic"
  key "gotham_city"
  public_url "https://www.turbovax.info/"
  api_url "http://api.turbovax.info/v1/test.json"
  request_http_method Turbovax::Constants::GET_REQUEST_METHOD

  parse_response do |response|
    response_json = JSON.parse(response)
    Array(response_json["appointments"]).map do |location_json|
      appointments = Array(location_json["slots"]).map do |appointment_string|
        {
          time: DateTime.parse(appointment_string)
        }
      end

      Turbovax::Location.new(
        id: "ID",
        name: location_json["clinic_name"],
        full_address: location_json["area"],
        time_zone: "America/New_York",
        data: {
          vaccine_types: [location_json["vaccine"]],
          appointments: appointments,
        }
      )
    end
  end
end

Execute operation:

locations = Turbovax::DataFetcher.new(TestPortal, twitter_handler: Turbovax::Handlers::LocationHandler).execute!

Advanced

Configuration

Specify logger:

Turbovax.configure do |config|
  config.logger = Logger.new($stdout, level: Logger::DEBUG)
end

Change Faraday (HTTP request library) logging:

Turbovax.configure do |config|
  config.faraday_logging_config = {
    headers: true,
    bodies: true,
    log_level: :info
  }
end

Disable tweets:

Turbovax.configure do |config|
  config.twitter_enabled = false
end

DataFetcher

Provide extra parameters:

Turbovax::DataFetcher.new(
  TestPortal,
  twitter_handler: Turbovax::Handlers::LocationHandler,
  # will be passed to Portal methods
  extra_params: {
    site_id: 123,
    date: "2021-08-08",
  }
).execute!

Portal

Custom HTTP headers (curl-to-ruby is helpful here):

class TestPortal < Turbovax::Portal
  request_headers do
    headers = {}
    headers["Connection"] = "keep-alive"
    headers["Pragma"] = "no-cache"
    headers["Cache-Control"] = "no-cache"
    headers["Sec-Ch-Ua"] = "\"Google Chrome\";v=\"89\", \"Chromium\";v=\"89\", \";Not A Brand\";v=\"99\""
    headers
  end
end

Use extra params provided by data fetcher:

class TestPortal < Turbovax::Portal
  request_body do
    {
      site_id: data_fetcher_params[:site_id],
    }
  end
end

Interpolate variables into URL:

# resulting URL https://www.example-site.info/abc/2021-08-08
class TestPortal < Turbovax::Portal
  api_url "https://www.example-site.info/%{site_id}/${date}"
  api_url_variables do
    {
      site_id: data_fetcher_params[:site_id],
      date: data_fetcher_params[:date].strftime("%F"),
    }
  end
end

Use HTTP POST:

class TestPortal < Turbovax::Portal
  request_http_method Turbovax::Constants::POST_REQUEST_METHOD
end

License

This gem is licensed according to GNU General Public License v3.0.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/hugem/turbovax-gem.

Disclaimer

This gem should only be used for the purposes of improving accessibility to vaccines and not for private gain.

This is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Intuit, Inc or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates. The names TurboTax as well as related names, marks, emblems and images are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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