This is a bot that creates a post for Bluesky containing information related to Merriam Webster's word of the day.

Install conda and use the environment.yml file to install dependencies:

conda env create -f environment.yml

conda activate word

conda env export > environment.yml

This bot uses the requests library to first get the word of the day from Merriam Webster's website and then uses Merriam Webster's Collegiate API to get the full data related to the word including the definition, pronunciations, examples, etymologies, and more.

Then the API response is parsed to get only certain information that is then used in a post:

• Word
• Part of speech
• Pronunciation
• Definition

Then we use the Bluesky API to login to the bot's account and make a post. Just prior to logging in we format the post text. After logging in a post is submitted.

This bot is deployed through AWS using Lambda and Eventbridge. The lambda function executes the main bot code to create a Bluesky post and an eventbridge rule is set up to trigger the lambda function once a day at 9am PT. The Lambda runtime settings are using Python 3.11 and the arm64 architecture.

To prepare for deployment we'll package everything in a .zip file. First we'll download all dependencies to a new directory:

mkdir package

pip install --platform manylinux2014_aarch64 --target ./package --implementation cp --python-version 3.11 --only-binary=:all: requests==2.31.0
pip install --platform manylinux2014_aarch64 --target ./package --implementation cp --python-version 3.11 --only-binary=:all: beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
pip install --platform manylinux2014_aarch64 --target ./package --implementation cp --python-version 3.11 --only-binary=:all: python-dotenv==1.0.1
pip install --platform manylinux2014_aarch64 --target ./package --implementation cp --python-version 3.11 --only-binary=:all: rich==13.7.0
pip install --platform manylinux2014_aarch64 --target ./package --implementation cp --python-version 3.11 --only-binary=:all: atproto==0.0.42

Then we'll create the .zip file:

cd package

# Add dependencies to zip file
zip -r ../bot-package.zip .

cd ..

# Add python scripts to zip file
zip bot-package.zip bot.py bsky.py utils.py

Finally, the .zip file gets uploaded to an AWS Lambda function and the Eventbridge rule is set up.

TODO:

• create tests
• update deployment section of readme