Mastodon Bot

This is a very simple bot for Mastodon, written in Go. It uses the gronx package for scheduling posts and the go-mastodon package for interacting with the Mastodon API.

It is currently only capable of posting the same message whenever a time defined by CRON_SCHEDULE occurs

Features

Posts the same message to Mastodon at scheduled interval
Configurable via environment variables

Environment Variables

Variable	Description	Example
`SERVER`	The Mastodon instance URL	https://mastodon.social
`CLIENT_ID`	The client ID for your Mastodon app	your_client_id
`CLIENT_SECRET`	The client secret for your Mastodon app	your_client_secret
`ACCESS_TOKEN`	The access token for your Mastodon app	your_access_token
`POST_TEXT`	The text to be posted by the bot	Hello, Mastodon!
`TZ`	The timezone for scheduling posts	America/New_York
`CRON_SCHEDULE`	The cron schedule for posts	* * * * *

Usage

Clone the repository
Set the environment variables
Run go run main.go

Example

export SERVER="https://mastodon.social"
export CLIENT_ID="your_client_id"
export CLIENT_SECRET="your_client_secret"
export ACCESS_TOKEN="your_access_token"
export POST_TEXT="Hello, Mastodon!"
export TZ="America/New_York"
export CRON_SCHEDULE="* * * * *"
go run main.go

Docker Compose

You can also run this bot using Docker Compose. Here's an example of how to do it: