The Mastodon Bot is available at
A Mastodon-port of my Twitter bot (@monkeyislandbot) posting monkey island quote, but it could tweet basically anything. (BTW: If you're wondering how I got the quotes out of the game in the first place: https://github.com/olithissen/MonkeyBusiness)
I'm using https://mastodon.social in the examples but of course you can and should pick the instance of your choice.
You will need the following tools installed and configured
- Node.js >= 16
- Serverless (https://www.serverless.com/)
- AWS CLI (and a working AWS account, obviously)
- Create a new application on your instance of choice (https://mastodon.social/settings/applications)
- Make sure you have the
write:statusesscope activated - Clone and
npm init
sls invoke local -f mibot --verbose --stage dev \
-e ACCESS_TOKEN=<your application acess token> \
-e API_URL=https://mastodon.social/api/v1/
As seen above, the bot requires two environment variables, ACCESS_TOKEN and API_URL.
The serverless.yml maps them from the Systems Manager parameter tab.
Create two parameters: mibot_mastodon_de_access_token to map to ACCESS TOKEN and mibot_mastodon_de_api_url for API_URL.
Then get some coffee and wait for serverless deploy to do its work.