A Lemmy bot that creates posts based on calendar events. It reads from a remote calendar, and creates posts in the specified community when every event starts. It gets the title and body for the post from the calendar events' title and description respectively.
If you have nix, I provide a package: nix run github:baduhai/lemmycalbot#lemmycalbot. You can also use this repo as a flake input and install the package to your system.
If you don't have nix (assuming you have python installed):
- Clone this repo
pip install -r requirements.txtchmod +x lemmycalbot.py
This bot has been tested with Python 3.9. I personally run this bot with a systemd service, passing the PASSWORD environment variable using LoadCredentialEncrypted=, but I leave the decision of how to deamonise the bot up to the administrator.
usage: lemmycalbot [-h] [-c CALENDAR] [-i INSTANCE] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-! COMMUNITY]
Calendar based, post-scheduling, Lemmy bot.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-c CALENDAR, --calendar CALENDAR
Calendar address, make sure to replace webcal:// with https:// or http://
-i INSTANCE, --instance INSTANCE
Instance address, e.g. https://sopuli.xyz
-u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
Bot account username
-p PASSWORD, --password PASSWORD
Bot account password
-! COMMUNITY, --community COMMUNITY
Community name, e.g. indycar
Instead of arguments, environment variables may also be used, set CALENDAR, INSTANCE, USERNAME,
PASSWORD and COMMUNITY. Environment variables take precedence over arguments.If you want an example of this bot in action, look at !indycar@sopuli.xyz during race weekends! And check out the indycar branch for an explanation and some modifications I've made to the bot to better suit the community's needs.
- Add option to pin posts for the duration of the event
- Add matrix/telegram/email/etc notifications for posts and program failures
If you have nix, it's as easy as cloning this repo, and running nix develop, dependencies are bundled in the devShell. If you don't want to use nix, requirements.txt shows the python libraries used.