mic92/mastodon-hnbot

A bot tooting the Hacker News stories when they reach certain points to Mastodon

A bot posting the Hacker News stories with certain points to Mastodon.

https://toot.matereal.eu/@hackernews50

Usage

Create an account for the bot. For convenience you can use [email protected], to avoid registering a separate email.

Then run the command:

python3 ./hnbot.py "[email protected]" "yourpassword" "https://instancename.com"

Run it regularly

You can use cron to run the bot regularly.

Run the command:

crontab -e

And at the end of the file add the line:

0,30 * * * * python3 /path/to/the/script/hnbot.py "[email protected]" "yourpassword" "https://instancename.com"

(this will execute every 30 minutes)