tootapalooza/README.md

# toota-palooza

Python program to fill a mastodon timeline with randomized toots.

# Setting up a Dev environment

So you want to run this yourself, eh?

You need:
1. A bot account on an instance. Go create one. Do **not** enable MFA on it.
2. Python

## Python prep

1. Check out the code. cd to the repository. Build it and install it in your working environment.
    1. `python3 -m venv .venv`
    2. Run `pyproject-build`
    3. Assuming your current working directory is the root of this repository, install into your build environment with `pip install -e .`
2. Copy the `example.env` file to a file named `.env` in the root of this repo.
3. Edit that `.env` file to contain all the secrets!

## Initialise your Mastodon app

This is a one-time thing you do ever. First time you go to run the bot in a new environment where it hasn't run before.

1. Find `toota-palooza/__init__.py` and edit it
2. Edit the lines to uncomment them and change any values you need to (like app name and server)
3. Run it one time (e.g., `python __init__.py`). It should just exit, creating the file.
4. Edit the file and comment the lines out again. You just do that once.

# Running

Assuming everything is up to date, all your files initialised with correct values, you can just run `toota-palooza`.

Currently it runs once, does its stuff, and exits.