@quotesbot

This is the code that posts to https://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"
```

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.

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