Jeff Cavanaugh wrote:Jason G wrote:I could make a website for this. Basically follow the food truck twitter accounts and when they post a location and time, stick it on a calendar. Then customers just log into one website and see where all the food trucks are at that time. No one has to manage the site and the food trucks don't have to log into anything to manage a schedule, they just tweet where they are.
Would anyone be interested in this?
Will you somehow scrape the content of the tweet for time info, or just go by the timestamp of the tweet? I ask because trucks will often post a day or two in advance announcing where they'll be at some later date.
Yeah exactly, just subscribe to the trucks twitter feed and scrape each one for dates and times. If it doesn't contain that data, ignore it. So if they tweet contained "5/30 12-3pm" i could look for that and then add the tweet to the calendar. If i actually got it working i could just let the food truck know, hey if you include this data in your tweet it will show up on my website for your customers to see. Easy.
Its not perfect solution but makes for an interesting experiment.