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README.md

description

the bot will read the timeline from the specified Twitter accounts, and post it to Mastodon

installation

install Node.js
run npm install to install Node modules
run npm start to, well, start

usage

create a Mastodon API key following the instructions here
create a Twitter API key follwing the instructions here
create a file called config.edn with the following contents:

{:twitter {:access-keys
           {:consumer_key "XXXX"
            :consumer_secret "XXXX"
            :access_token_key "XXXX"
            :access_token_secret "XXXX"}
           :accounts ["arstechnica" "WIRED"]} ;; accounts you wish to mirror
 :mastodon {:access_token "XXXX"
            :api_url "https://botsin.space/api/v1/"}}

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