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40 lines
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# @quotesbot
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This is the code that posts to https://fyrfli.social/quotesbot.
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## Requirements:
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- some knowledge of the linux command line
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- python installed
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- a Mastodon-compatible API token for your instance
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- a json-formatted file of quotes to use formatted thus:
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```
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"quote": "quote"
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"author": "author"
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```
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Your quotes file can either be in the local directory or accessible at a url.
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## To install:
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- Download the release package
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- Extract into your chosen directory:
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- `mkdir quotesbot && cd quotesbot`
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- `tar xfz | gunzip source.[zip|tar.gz]`
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- If you have other projects, you can create a virtual environment to run this code:
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- `python3 -m venv .venv`
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- `source .venv/bin/activate`
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- `python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt`
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- Otherwise, just install from the requirements.txt: `python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt`
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- Copy the env.example to .env and change the values to your own
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## To use:
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- 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:
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- `python3 random_quotes.py 1`
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## Caveats
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This is code is *very* rudimentary. It serves a specific purpose:
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- To post my favourite quotes to my timeline every few hours
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- To practice my python coding skills
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## Going forward
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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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