/mastodon-jihou-bot

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mastodon-jihou-bot (Mastodon 時報 Bot)

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mastodon-jihou-bot is a Mastodon bot that posts the time every hour.

post-sample

This bot is running on @jihou@social.fohte.net.

Architecture

This bot is running on AWS Lambda function and triggered by Amazon EventBridge every hour.

graph LR
    eventbridge[Amazon EventBridge] -- trigger --> lambda[AWS Lambda]
    lambda -- post --> mastodon[Mastodon Server]
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Usage

1. Create a Mastodon account for the bot

Create a Mastodon account for the bot manually. You can use any Mastodon server you like.

2. Create a Mastodon application

Go to https://<mastodon-domain>/settings/applications/new and create an application with your bot account. The only permission you need is write:statuses.

3. Create a Lambda function and EventBridge

Create a Lambda function and EventBridge with the following settings:

  • Runtime: provided.al2
  • Architecture: arm64
  • Handler: index.handler
  • Timeout: 10 sec (or more)
  • Memory: 128 MB (minimum)
  • Environment Variables:
    • MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN: Access token of the Mastodon application
  • Cron: 0 * * * ? * (every hour)