clean up, updated docs

README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ the bot will post the timeline from the specified Twitter/Tumblr accounts and RS
 
 1. install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)
 2. run `npm install` to install Node modules
-3. run `npm start` to, well, start
 
 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:
 
@@ -87,10 +86,10 @@ with later timestamps to avoid duplicate posts. On the first run the timestamp w
 
 * 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`
+* run the bot: `npm start`
 * to poll at intervals setup a cron job such as:
 
-    */30 * * * * mastodon-bot.cljs /path/to/config.edn > /dev/null 2>&1
+    */30 * * * * npm start /path/to/config.edn > /dev/null 2>&1
 
 ## License
 

mastodon_bot/core.cljs

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
    ["request" :as request]
    ["fs" :as fs]
    ["mastodon-api" :as mastodon]
+   ["rss-parser" :as rss]
    ["tumblr" :as tumblr]
    ["twitter" :as twitter]))
 
@@ -16,9 +17,12 @@
   (js/process.exit 1))
 
 (defn find-config []
-  (or (first *command-line-args*)
+  (let [config (or (first *command-line-args*)
-      (-> js/process .-env .-MASTODON_BOT_CONFIG)
+                   (-> js/process .-env .-MASTODON_BOT_CONFIG)
-      "config.edn"))
+                   "config.edn")]
+    (if (fs/existsSync config)
+      config
+      (exit-with-error (str "failed to read config: " config)))))
 
 (def config (-> (find-config) (fs/readFileSync #js {:encoding "UTF-8"}) edn/read-string))
 
@@ -193,3 +197,6 @@
     (catch js/Error e
       (exit-with-error
        (str "failed to connect to Tumblr account " account ": " (.-message e))))))
+
+(defn rss-parser []
+  (rss.))

mastodon_bot/main.cljs

@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 
 (ns mastodon-bot.main
   (:require
-   [mastodon-bot.core :as core]
+   [mastodon-bot.core :as core]))
-   ["rss-parser" :as rss]))
 
 (core/get-mastodon-timeline
  (fn [timeline]
@@ -27,6 +26,6 @@
            (.posts client #js {:limit (or limit 5)} (core/post-tumblrs last-post-time)))))
      ;;post from RSS
      (when-let [feeds (some-> core/config :rss)]
-       (let [parser (rss.)]
+       (let [parser (core/rss-parser)]
          (doseq [feed feeds]
            (core/parse-feed last-post-time parser feed)))))))