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### description
the bot will post the timeline from the specified Twitter/Tumblr accounts and RSS feeds to Mastodon
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### installation
1. install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
2. run `npm install` to install Node modules
3. run `npm start` to, well, start
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If you wish to run the script directly, you will need to have [Lumo](https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo) available on the shell path. Lumo can be installed globally via NPM by running:
npm install -g lumo-cljs
If you get a [permission failure](https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo/issues/206), try this:
npm install -g lumo-cljs --unsafe-perm
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### usage
* create a Mastodon API key following the instructions [here](https://tinysubversions.com/notes/mastodon-bot/)
* create a Twitter API key follwing the instructions [here](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/guides/access-tokens)
* create a Tumblr API key following the instructions [here](http://www.developerdrive.com/2014/05/how-to-get-started-with-the-tumblr-api-part-1/)
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* create a file called `config.edn` with the following contents:
```clojure
{;; add Twitter config to mirror Twitter accounts
:twitter {:access-keys
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{:consumer_key "XXXX"
:consumer_secret "XXXX"
:access_token_key "XXXX"
:access_token_secret "XXXX"}
;; optional, defaults to false
:include-replies? false
;; optional, defaults to false
:include-rts? false
;; accounts you wish to mirror
:accounts ["arstechnica" "WIRED"]}
;; add Tumblr config to mirror Tumblr accounts
:tumblr {:access-keys
{:consumer_key "XXXX"
:consumer_secret "XXXX"
:token "XXXX"
:token_secret "XXXX"}
;; optional limit for number of posts to retrieve, default: 5
:limit 10
:accounts ["cyberpunky.tumblr.com" "scipunk.tumblr.com"]}
;; add RSS config to follow feeds
:rss {"Hacker News" "https://hnrss.org/newest"
"r/Clojure" "https://www.reddit.com/r/clojure/.rss"}
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:mastodon {:access_token "XXXX"
:api_url "https://botsin.space/api/v1/"
;; optional boolean to mark content as sensitive
:sensitive true
;; optional visibility flag: direct, private, unlisted, public
;; defaults to public
:visibility "unlisted"
;; optional limit for the post length
:max-post-length 300
;; optional flag specifying wether the name of the account
;; will be appended in the post, defaults to false
:append-screen-name? false
;; optional signature for posts
:signature "#newsbot"
;; optionally try to resolve URLs in posts to skip URL shorteners
;; defaults to false
:resolve-urls? true
;; optional content filter regexes
;; any posts matching the regexes will be filtered out
:content-filters [".*bannedsite.*"]
;; optional keyword filter regexes
;; any posts not matching the regexes will be filtered out
:keyword-filters [".*clojure.*"]}}
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```
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* the bot looks for `config.edn` at its relative path by default, an alternative location can be specified either using the `MASTODON_BOT_CONFIG` environment variable or passing the path to config as an argument
* run the bot: `./mastodon-bot.cljs`
* to poll at intervals setup a cron job such as:
*/30 * * * * mastodon-bot.cljs /path/to/config.edn > /dev/null 2>&1
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## License
Copyright © 2018 Dmitri Sotnikov
Distributed under the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).