The document describes how the author built a Python solution to receive text notifications about alternate side of the street parking restrictions in NYC. The author used the Twitter API to search for tweets from @NYCASP containing "suspended" and "tomorrow", and connected to Twilio to send themselves a text message when those tweets were found. They deployed the process to a Digital Ocean server using cron jobs to automate running the search regularly without manual effort.

1. How I solved my NYC
Parking problem with Python

2. Let me know if this inspires you
to create anything.
@JessicaGarson

3. Code can be found at
github.com/twitterdev/parking

4. Slides can be found at
t.co/parking

5. What was happening in my
life?

6. I live in Brooklyn

7. I had a problem

8. So what are alternate side of the
street parking restrictions anyways?

9. Oh No!
I was moving my car too much

10. I built a solution using Twitter Data
and Twilio to send myself a text
whenever I don’t have to move my
car.

11. Overview of the solution

12. I needed to get the Tweets from
@NYCASP.

13. See if the words suspended and
tomorrow appeared in the same
Tweet.

14. Get a text message when the right
words appear.

15. Run this on a server so the process
repeats without minimal effort.

16. Process for creating this app
1 2 3
Get the Tweets we want
using the search Tweets
Python wrapper
Connect to Twilio Run this on a server using
cron jobs

17. I used premium
search

18. Premium 30-day search allows to
query-based access to the Tweet
archive with minute granularity.

19. What will I need to get
started?

20. You will need the libraries
twilio.rest, pandas, and
searchtweets

21. You will need to create a Twitter
app which allows you to connect to
API.

22. You can apply for access at
t.co/dev-apply-for-access

23. You will also need a yaml file for
your secrets.

24. Connecting to Twilio

25. Let’s build a helper script to
connect to Twilio

26. Connecting to Twitter

27. Tying it together

28. If the right
conditions are met
I’ll get this text:

29. Deployment

30. Currently this is deployed to a
Digital Ocean server using a cron
job.

31. The future of the Twitter
API

32. Twitter Developer Labs is a new
program that allows developers to
partner with us to create and shape
the future of our API.

33. Check out our roadmap at
t.co/dev-platform-roadmap

34. Sign up for Labs at
t.co/labs

35. Give us feedback at
t.co/developerfeedback

36. Conclusion

37. Jess, why didn’t you make this so
you get a text when you do have to
move your car?

38. If you want to see a blog post of this
talk you can check it out at
t.co/parking-post

39. Let me know if this inspires you
to create anything.
@JessicaGarson

40. Also you can let us know
@TwitterDev or on the
twittercommunity.com forums

41. We’re hiring too!
careers.twitter.com

42. Or come find me, Aurelia, or
Emily after

43. Thanks!