fetchBot

fetchBot

Bot

• refreshing the DB at least once per day,
• processing profile requests from the AWS SQS.
• publishing the data to production, and
• backing up the data.

Errors will be sent to Sentry via raven-bash.

Table of Contents

• Install and set up dependencies
  • Install raven-bash
  • Create /etc/raven-bash.conf
  • Set up AWS CLI
  • Install other dependencies
• Run the bot

Install and set up dependencies

Install raven-bash

$ sudo pip install raven-bash==1.0

Create /etc/raven-bash.conf

See raven-bash's documentation.

Set up AWS CLI

See here.

Install other dependencies

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install jq

Run the bot

$ ./bot.sh

NOTE: in production we currently run this bot on an EC2 instance.