Bot that randomly posts 23,463 personalized license plate applications the California DMV received from 2015-2016 to Twitter every so often.
Watch it live on Twitter @ca_dmv_bot.
The data ca-dmv uses is sourced from @veltman/ca-license-plates, which states;
- 23,463 personalized license plate applications that the California DMV received from 2015 through 2016
- These aren't all applications reviewed by the DMV during that timeframe; only applications that were flagged for additional review by the Review Committee
- Compiled from 458 Excel workbooks that the DMV prepared for someone else's public records request
- Uses Discord to manually approve licenses (to ensure no obscene content gets posted that would break Twitter ToS)
- Posts plates to Twitter every hour or so; this is contingent on approval timeline
- Uses GraphicsMagick (fork of ImageMagick) to generate license plate images
- Does not include review reason codes for brevity purposes
- Made on a slow weekend; only ephemeral logging exists and there is little-to-no error checking
Thanks to Noah Veltman (@veltman) for the application dataset and to Kay (@zyrnwtf) for teaching me the ins and outs of the Twitter API.
ca-dmv is licensed under the MIT license. A copy of it has been included with ca-dmv.