🗼 CN Tower Color Bot

Every evening at 8pm, this bot:

1. Scrapes tonight's CN Tower lighting color from cntower.ca
2. Generates a fun AI fact using Claude
3. Sends it straight to your WhatsApp via Twilio

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Setup (15 minutes, I promise)

Step 1 — Install Python dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 2 — Get your free Twilio WhatsApp sandbox

1. Sign up at twilio.com (free)
2. Go to Messaging → Try it out → Send a WhatsApp message
3. Follow instructions to connect your WhatsApp number to the sandbox
4. Note your Account SID and Auth Token

Step 3 — Get your Anthropic API key

1. Sign up at console.anthropic.com
2. Create an API key under API Keys

Step 4 — Set your environment variables

export TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID="ACxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
export TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN="your_auth_token"
export MY_WHATSAPP="whatsapp:+1XXXXXXXXXX"   # your WhatsApp number with country code
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-ant-xxxxxxxx"

Or just paste them directly into cn_tower_bot.py (lines 20–26).

Step 5 — Run it!

python cn_tower_bot.py

The bot will fire once immediately, then every evening at 8:00 PM.

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Sample WhatsApp Message

🩷 CN Tower Tonight — Saturday, March 15

🎨 Color: Pink
📌 Why: In honor of International Day of Pink, celebrating inclusion

💡 Fun fact: The CN Tower has been lit in over 200 unique colors and
combinations since LED lighting was introduced — it can produce virtually
any shade in the visible spectrum.

_Powered by CN Tower Bot 🗼_

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Keep it running 24/7 (optional)

Run it in the background on your Mac/Linux:

nohup python cn_tower_bot.py &

Or use a free cloud service like Railway or Render to host it permanently.

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Tech Stack

Component	Tool	Cost
Lighting schedule	CN Tower website scraper	Free
AI fun fact	Anthropic Claude API	~$0.001/day
WhatsApp message	Twilio Sandbox	Free (sandbox)
Scheduler	Python schedule library	Free

Total cost: ~$0.03/month

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Built in a weekend. 80 lines of Python. Zero regrets. 🗼