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

this is only tested on python 3.10

you should run this from a virtual environemnt or risk suffering terrible dependency mismatches sometime in the future

• install the package and its dependencies

  $ pip install .
  

• 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 buildx 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