atx-permit-bot

This is a personal project with no affiliation with or endorsement from the City of Austin.

This bot tweets about new permits issued in Austin, TX. It does so by scraping the City of Austin's Build & Connect Portal.

The bot tweets these permit types:

• Residential and commercial building permits*
• Zoning/Rezoning
• Film
• Short Term Rental (all types)
• Street Vendor
• Hotel
• Easement Release

* Excluding commercial and residential remodels and renovations.

How It Works

The bot is written in Python and is comprised of three components:

1. A PostgREST-fronted PostgreSQL database stores permit data and keeps track of what's been tweeted.

2. scrape.py retrieves new permit data and loads it to the database.

3. tweet.py intermittently queries the permit database for tweetworthy permits, and tweets them.

Contributions and Feedback

Open an issue to provide feedback or suggest a new feature. Pull requests welcome :)