Hello World!

This is a quote bot (shell script) which shows a random quote from a file every time it is invoked.

Note: You need to make it executable to use it.

chmod u+x main.sh

The reason i use a file and not the web is hackability, at the moment.

Please provide a quotes.txt file with one line per quote.

REST-Version

The Rest-Version has functioning mastodon connection over REST-API. You need to run the full oauth user authentication before. I tried to use the "Development" section in Mastodon Preferences but it didnt work. What did work was the out of bounds creation of a new application and authenticating it with a user. It does not appear in the user Development section.

Here's the documentation for the api: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/intro/

You essentially need to run the following commands:

#test connection
curl https://mastodon.example/endpoint?q=test&n=0

# create app https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/ this will return secrets, write them down!
curl -X POST     -F 'client_name=Bot3'   -F 'redirect_uris=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob'    -F 'scopes=read write push'         -F 'website=https://myapp.example'      https://mastodon.example.com/api/v1/apps

#verify the app works https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/#verify_credentials
curl     -H 'Authorization: Bearer ****'  https://mastodon.example.com/api/v1/accounts/verify_credentials

#authorize a user https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/oauth/#authorize and https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/authorized/#login you will have to input this in a browser then login and authorize the app, it will provide an authorization code
https://mastodon.example/oauth/authorize
?client_id=CLIENT_ID
&scope=read+write+push
&redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob
&response_type=code

#obtain token https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/oauth/#token
curl -X POST     -F 'grant_type=authorization_code'      -F 'client_id=\*'  -F 'client_secret=\*'  -F 'redirect_uri=urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob' -F 'code=\*'   https://mastodon.example.com/oauth/token


#make your first post 
curl -i -H 'Authorization: Bearer ***' -d 'status=Hello World!' https://mastodon.example.com/api/v1/statuses

To find this out took me hours and hours. I'm writing it down to spare you time.

Have fun!