newsy-mastodon

Newsy Mastodon

A Mastodon Bot that toots the top 5 stories from HackerNews, at the top of every hour.

There is a live instance of this bot (hosted on https://fly.io/) publishing to this account: https://framapiaf.org/@newsycombinator - check it out!

How to build

go build .

How to run

You need to export the following environment variables:

• HN_NUMBER_OF_STORIES, for example 3 - the number of top stories you want to publish to Mastodon
• MASTODON_BASE_URL , for example https://one.mastodon.server
• MASTODON_CLIENT_ID, you'll get it after creating a new App in your mastodon instance, associated to a mastodon account
• MASTODON_CLIENT_SECRET, you'll get it after creating a new App in your mastodon instance, associated to a mastodon account
• MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN, you'll get it after creating a new App in your mastodon instance, associated to a mastodon account