mastodon-bot/README.md

description

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

installation

1. install Node.js
2. install Lumo: npm install -g lumo-cljs
3. run npm install to install Node modules

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