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1.3 KiB
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34 lines
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### description
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the bot will read the timeline from the specified Twitter accounts,
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and post it to Mastodon
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### installation
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1. install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
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2. install [Lumo](https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo): `npm install -g lumo-cljs`
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3. run `npm install` to install Node modules
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### usage
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* create a Mastodon API key following the instructions [here](https://tinysubversions.com/notes/mastodon-bot/)
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* create a Twitter API key follwing the instructions [here](https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/basics/authentication/guides/access-tokens)
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* create a file called `config.edn` with the following contents:
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```clojure
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{:twitter {:access-keys
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{:consumer_key "XXXX"
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:consumer_secret "XXXX"
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:access_token_key "XXXX"
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:access_token_secret "XXXX"}
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:accounts ["arstechnica" "WIRED"]} ;; accounts you wish to mirror
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:mastodon {:access_token "XXXX"
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:api_url "https://botsin.space/api/v1/"}}
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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
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* run the bot: `./mastodon-bot.cljs`
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* to poll at intervals setup a cron job such as:
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*/30 * * * * mastodon-bot.cljs /path/to/config.edn > /dev/null 2>&1
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