Introduction

This is a bot for collecting all the hashtags posted in cmx.im local timeline every [hashtag_clear_freq] seconds, and toot them every [toot_freq] seconds.

2018/06/08 Added a thread to collect daily Chinese crosswords puzzles

Usage

Clone this repo. Make sure you have Ruby Gem and Bundler installed

git clone https://github.com/obeliskgolem/cmx-botkun_001
gem install bundler
bundle install

Generate a bearer token for your application, then copy it and create a file named "config.yaml" with it. You can take "config.yaml.example" as a reference.

To generate bearer token, take a look at Reference #3.

mv config.yaml.example config.yaml
# manually config your config.yaml file with generated token

There is a bug in official Mastodon API and you should modify streaming/response.rb accordingly. See Issue for details.

vim /Users/XXXXXX/.rbenv/versions/2.3.6/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/bundler/gems/mastodon-api-6557c5cc580f/lib/mastodon/streaming/response.rb

Replace the on_body() function with code

      def on_body(data)
        @tokenizer.extract(data).each do |line|
          has_data = @match.match(line)
          next if has_data.nil?

          type = has_data[1]
          data = has_data[2]

          next if !(type == "update")         # added a check before parsing JSON

          @block.call(type, JSON.parse(data))
        end
      end

This project use modified_api for Bundle exec.

Executing the bot from CLI

ruby cmx-hashtag-collector.rb

It should be working.

References

Mastodon API in Ruby

Streaming API code examples

Making a Mastodon Bot in Ruby