Boost

Automatically boost posts from Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, and probably other stuff too that's compatible with the Mastodon API.

Forked from https://gitlab.com/chaica/boost, but i don't know what I'm doing. I've hacked onto this for my own uses, and maybe that's something you're into. Main changes:

added config option "dontboostboosts" to not boost, well. boosts
added config option "dontboostreplies" to not boost replies
fixed older_than and younger_than config options

Read the (moderately out of date) documentation in docs/ or read the docs online at your peril. (the latter link is from the tool I forked this from- their own gitlab page doesn't have the right link, so it's here. but I can't edit that, and it's inherently gonna differ from what I'm doing here. Sorry.)

Tips

if you wanna use this in cron for automated boosting, make sure all your paths are absolute (like, /home/mimuki/boost/boost.db and so on).

also i havent really edited the rest of this readme to be accurate or up to date, so good luck. i havent tested this much beyond my very exact use case so stuff might be broken, sorry

"Quick" Install

Get this repo saved on your computer in the method of your choice (download it and unzip it, clone it, etc). extract it if needed, and run python3 setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/bin. (or wherever you'd like it to install. just python3 setup.py install will install in the current directory.)

Then, run register_boost_app to connect up the account you want to boost from, and follow the prompts.

Use Boost

Create a boost.ini file in order to configure Boost:

  [mastodon]
  users_to_boost=someone@mastodon.social,someonelse@framapiarg.org
  instance_url=https://mastodon.social
  user_credentials=boost_usercred.txt
  client_credentials=boost_clientcred.txt

  [boost]
  boosts=0
  waitminsecs=60
  waitmaxsecs=600
  do_not_boost_hashtags=dnr,
  only_if_hashtags=python,
  match=[Rr]egex
  favorite=true

  [sqlite]
  sqlitepath=/var/lib/boost/boost.db

Launch Boost
```
  $ boost -c /path/to/boost.ini
```

License

This software comes under the terms of the GPLv3+. See the LICENSE file for the complete text of the license.