hackberry

Ephemeral hacks.

Allergen Alerts

For the following allergens:

• Generic
• Celery
• Crustaceans
• Egg
• Fish
• Gluten
• Lupin
• Milk
• Moluscs
• Mustard
• Nuts
  • Peanuts (ground nuts)
  • Tree nuts
• Sesame Seeds
• Soya
• Sulphites

Data Sources

Food Standards Agency Allergy Alerts News RSS Feed http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/allergynews-rss

Code

Thanks to Node RSS-to-Twitter for an initial pointer on how we might do this: https://github.com/pxg/Node-Rss-to-Twitter/blob/master/rss_app.js

Publishing

A generic feed on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AllergenAlerts

Additional feeds specific to each allergen are also provided. These can be found by looking at the list of accounts followed by the generic feed: https://twitter.com/AllergenAlerts/following

Tools/Resources

Source control: https://github.com/martian-a/hackberry

Web server: https://tranquil-taiga-7750.herokuapp.com/

Easy management of environment variables: https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-config

Regular HTTP requests: https://my.pingdom.com/