dbei-bot

Track current application processing dates for employment permits and support letter processed by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Ireland).

This bot utilizes:

• Node JS
  • axios for promise based http requests
• Express minimalist web framework
• LowDB local JSON database
• Jest javascript testing

Running the App locally

You'll need Node & NPM installed on your local development machine.

npm run start

Runs the app in express server with fallback port as 1337.

Configuration

This app requires a local configuration file (.env) in the root directory with the following environment variables

DBEI_URL=<dbei_current_processing_dates_url>
SEND_API=<facebook_message_api>
VERIFY_TOKEN=<messenger_webhook_verification_token>
PAGE_ACCESS_TOKEN=<messenger_page_access_token>