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.

docker

you can use the dockerfile and docker-compose.yml i provided. I will at some point push a docker image which is ready to use. Until then you will have to build the image first. Here's how:

git clone https://code.kraftw3rk.de/alex/quote-bot.git
git switch rest-bot
touch quotes.txt #(fill with quotes, one per line, no longer than your instance character limit!)
touch .env #(fill with "UserToken='***'" insert the token where the stars are!)
mv docker-compose-example.yml docker-compose.yml
docker compose up -d

Have fun!