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 # Astley
 
-It's a long story involving QR codes, stickers, Rick Astley and [@jgjay](https://twitter.com/jgjay)
+It started with some idle chat in a Slack channel, which gave rise to the first Rick Roll stickers. Then somebody suggested some stickers that Rick Rolled via bit.ly so we could do some analytics, so we made those, too. Then we had analytics data and we needed something to do with it. So here we are
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+## Installing it
+
+I can't believe anybody else will ever use this, but:
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+    git clone https://github.com/pikesley/astley
+    cd astley
+    bundle
+
+Then you need to fill in `.env` file with
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+    token: bitly_api_token
+    link: http://bit.ly/some_bitly_link
+    tz_offset: 0
+    interval: 5 # grab this many minutes of data
+    consumer_key: twitter_consumer_key
+    consumer_secret: twitter_consumer_secret
+    twitter_token: twitter_token
+    twitter_secret: twitter_secret
+
+See [this](https://github.com/twitter/twurl/blob/master/README) if you need help on getting the Twitter credentials. I set the `interval` to 5 minutes, then I'm running this out of `cron` every 5 minutes like
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+    */5 * * * *	cd /home/astley/astley && bundle exec rake tweet >> log/rickroll.log
+
+And it Tweets [here](https://twitter.com/rick_roll_bot)
+
+I might also make a [Bothan](https://bothan.io/) dashboard
+
+Thanks to [@floppy](https://twitter.com/floppy), [@pezholio](https://twitter.com/pezholio) and [@jgjay](https://twitter.com/jgjay) for all the ideas