pleroma-ebooks/README.md

# mstdn-ebooks

**Lynnear Edition**

This version makes quite a few changes from [the original](https://github.com/Jess3Jane/mastodon-ebooks), such as:
- Unicode support
- Non-Markov stuff
- Stores toots in a sqlite database rather than a text file
  - Doesn't unecessarily redownload all toots every time
  
## Install/usage guide
An installation and usage guide is available [here](https://cloud.lynnesbian.space/s/jozbRi69t4TpD95). It's primarily targeted at Linux, but it should be possible on BSD, macOS, etc. I've also put some effort into providing steps for Windows, but I can't make any guarantees as to its effectiveness.

## Configuration
Configuring mstdn-ebooks is accomplished by editing `config.json`.

| Setting | Default | Meaning |
|--------------------|------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| site | https://botsin.space | The instance your bot will log in to and post from. |
| cw | null | The content warning (aka subject) mstdn-ebooks will apply to non-error posts. |
| instance_blacklist | ["bofa.lol", "witches.town"] | If your bot is following someone from a blacklisted instance, it will skip over them and not download their posts. This is useful for ensuring that mstdn-ebooks doesn't download posts from dead instances, without you having to unfollow the user(s) from them. |
| learn_from_cw | false |  If true, mstdn-ebooks will learn from CW'd posts. |
| mention_handling | 1 |  0: Never use mentions. 1: Only generate fake mentions in the middle of posts, never at the start. 2: Use mentions as normal (old behaviour). |


## Original README
hey look it's an ebooks bot

python3

install the requirements with `sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt`

make a bot (probably on bots in space) and follow the target accounts

run `python3 main.py` to login and scrape

run `python3 gen.py` to make a toot

cron is an okay choice to make it toot regularly