You cannot select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.
This repo is archived. You can view files and clone it, but cannot push or open issues/pull-requests.
mastodon-bot/README.md

112 lines
4.8 KiB
Markdown

6 years ago
### description
the bot will post the timeline from the specified Twitter/Tumblr accounts and RSS feeds to Mastodon
6 years ago
### installation
1. install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
2. run `npm install` to install Node modules
6 years ago
6 years ago
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
6 years ago
### usage
* create a Mastodon API key following the instructions [here](https://tinysubversions.com/notes/mastodon-bot/)
* create a Twitter API key following 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/)
6 years ago
* create a file called `config.edn` with the following contents:
**NOTE**: the bot checks the specified Mastodon account to see the timestamp of the last post, and only posts content
with later timestamps to avoid duplicate posts. On the first run the timestamp will default to current time.
6 years ago
```clojure
{:auth {;; add Twitter config to mirror Twitter accounts
:twitter {:consumer_key "XXXX"
:consumer_secret "XXXX"
:access_token_key "XXXX"
:access_token_secret "XXXX"}
:mastodon {:access_token "XXXX"
;; account number you see when you log in and go to your profile
;; e.g: https://mastodon.social/web/accounts/294795
:account-id "XXXX"
:api_url "https://botsin.space/api/v1/"}}
;; 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"}
:transform [{:source {:type :twitter-source
;; optional, defaults to false
:include-replies? false
;; optional, defaults to false
:include-rts? false
;; Replace Twitter links by Nitter
:nitter-urls? false
;; accounts you wish to mirror
:accounts ["arstechnica" "WIRED"]}
:target {:type :mastodon-target
;; optional flag specifying wether the name of the account
;; will be appended in the post, defaults to false
:append-screen-name? false
;; optional visibility flag: direct, private, unlisted, public
;; defaults to public
:visibility "unlisted"
;; optional boolean to mark content as sensitive
:sensitive? true
;; optional boolean defaults to false
;; only sources containing media will be posted when set to true
:media-only? true
;; optional limit for the post length
:max-post-length 300
;; 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.*"]
;; TODO: Description & example missing here
:replacements nil}]
}
6 years ago
```
6 years ago
* 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: `npm start`
6 years ago
* to poll at intervals setup a cron job such as:
*/30 * * * * npm start /path/to/config.edn > /dev/null 2>&1
6 years ago
4 years ago
### compiling to Js
Alternatively, the bot can be compiled directly to JavaScript using the following command:
```
npx shadow-cljs release app
```
6 years ago
## License
Copyright © 2018 Dmitri Sotnikov
Distributed under the [MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).