mastodon-apod

it's a mastodon bot that posts the most recent image from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

it uses ananas

how to use

• (optional) create a venv to isolate dependencies from the system

  $ python -m venv venv
  $ source venv/bin/activate
  

• install dependencies

  $ pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• fill in config file

  $ cp config/ananas.cfg.example config/ananas.cfg
  $ $EDITOR config/ananas.cfg
  

• run

  $ ananas config/ananas.cfg
  

• enjoy

how to use (docker)

• fill in config file

  $ cp config/ananas.cfg.example config/ananas.cfg
  $ $EDITOR config/ananas.cfg
  

• build

  $ docker build -t mastodon-apod .
  $ # or, shortened:
  $ make docker
  

• stop and remove potential existing container

  $ docker rm -f mastodon-apod
  $ # or, shortened:
  $ make docker-rm
  

• and run

  $ docker run -n mastodon-apod -d --restart unless-stopped -v $(pwd)/config:/app/config --user $(id -u) mastodon-apod
  $ # or, shortened:
  $ make docker-run
  

these last three steps can be run at once with

$ make up