@quotesbot

This is the code that posts to https://bots.fyrfli.social/@quotesbot.

Requirements:

• some knowledge of the linux command line
• python installed
• a Mastodon-compatible API token for your instance
• a json-formatted file of quotes to use formatted thus:

  [
      {
          "quote": "quote",
          "author": "author"
      },
      ...
      {
          "quote": "quote",
          "author": "author"
      }
  ]
  

Your quotes file can either be in the local directory or accessible at a url.

To install:

• Download the release package
• Extract into your chosen directory:
  • mkdir quotesbot && cd quotesbot
  • tar xfz | gunzip source.[zip|tar.gz]
• If you have other projects, you can create a virtual environment to run this code:
  • python3 -m venv .venv
  • source .venv/bin/activate
  • python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
• Otherwise, just install from the requirements.txt: python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
• Copy the env.example to .env and change the values to your own

To use:

• You can either run the code without any arguments: python3 random_quotes.py or you can pass one argument through to the code to select a specific quote to post:
  • python3 random_quotes.py 1

Caveats

This is code is very rudimentary. It serves a specific purpose:

• To post my favourite quotes to my timeline every few hours
• To practice my python coding skills

Going forward

It is possible that I may continue to work on this to a point where it's a more sophisticated module, but I can almost guarantee that there are packages out there that do this and more with far more finesse.