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# tootapalooza
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Python program to fill a mastodon timeline with randomized toots.
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# Setting up a Dev environment
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So you want to run this yourself, eh?
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You need:
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1. A bot account on an instance. Go create one. Do **not** enable MFA on it.
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2. Python
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## Python prep
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1. Check out the code.
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2. cd to the repository.
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3. Build it and install it in your working environment.
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1. `python3 -m venv .venv`
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2. `. .venv/bin/activate`
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3. `pip install -r requirements.txt`
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4. Assuming your current working directory is the root of this repository, install into your build environment with `pip install -e .`
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4. Copy the `example.env` file to a file named `.env` in the root of this repo.
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5. Edit that `.env` file to contain all the secrets!
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## Initialise your Mastodon app
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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.
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1. Find `tootapalooza/__init__.py` and edit it
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2. Edit the lines to uncomment them and change any values you need to (like app name and server)
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3. Run it one time (e.g., `python __init__.py`). It should just exit, creating the file.
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4. Edit the file and comment the lines out again. You just do that once.
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# Running
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Set get the `tootapalooza` command into your path so you can invoke it. Run `pip install -e .`
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Assuming everything is up to date, all your files initialised with correct values, you can just run `tootapalooza --once`.
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By default it will try to run as a daemon. |