CablePorn Mastodon bot.

This is the core of @CablePorn@botsin.space, This software is made to link r/CablePorn and Mastodon Everytime the bot start, it will send a new post to mstdn if one is found. Every days at 2PM GTM (11PM JST) it will check for the latest post in the database and post it on mstdn.

Config file:

To run this bot you will need:

• Access to mstdn API.
• A mongoDB Database
• AWS S3 compatible provider. Copy the config.json.exemple and name the file config.json

cp config.json.exemple  config.json

You should have something like this:

{
"DBUri": "mongodb+srv://[USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]@[DATABASE DNS/IP]/CablePorn"
"mastodon": {
"client_key": "MASTODON_CLIENT_ID",
"access_token": "MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN",
"client_secret": "MASTODON_CLIENT_SECRET"
},
"aws": {
"key": "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID",
"secret": "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY",
"region": "REGION",
"bucket": "NAME_OF_THE_BUCKET"
},
"reddit": {
"sub": "CablePorn",
"limit": "800"
},
"save_after": false
}

Fill all the information.

Configs Explanation:

DBUri is the URI to your mongoDB database.

mastodon is the information to connect to your mstdn instance. mastodon.client_key is the client id of your mstdn app. mastodon.access_token is the access token of your mstdn app. mastodon.client_secret is the client secret of your mstdn app. All the information can be found in your mstdn app settings.

aws is the information to connect to your AWS S3 bucket. aws.key is the access key id, that can be found in your AWS IAM console. aws.secret is the secret access key, that can be found in your AWS IAM console. aws.region is the region of your bucket. aws.bucket is the name of your bucket (EG: cdn.kyokodev.xyz).

reddit is the information to connect to reddit. reddit.sub is the name of the subreddit you want to connect to (without r/). reddit.limit is the limit of post you want to get from reddit. (We use 800 but you can use less if your bandwidth is limited)

save_after is a boolean, if set to true, the bot will save the post after it has been posted on mstdn. Note: We use adding the possibility not to set isPosted to true, because we also run a Twitter bot, and want the bots to post the same post on different platforms.

Running the bot:

# debian based
# Install NodeJS using Node's official documentation. (https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall)
curl -fsSL  https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x  | sudo -E  bash  - &&\
sudo apt  update && sudo apt  install  nodejs

# Install Git:
sudo apt  install  git
cd  CablePorn-mstdn

# Install the dependencies
npm install

# Run the bot for development
sudo npm  -g  i  nodemon
npm run  dev

# Run the bot for production
# You can use pm2 or any other process manager
npm run  start

Note: For other OS please refer to NodeJS's official documentation.

Todo list:

• Setup the bot to post once everyday at specified times.
• Set the bot to post at each boot.
• Multi account
• Report errors and crash on Discord and Emails. (report on our personal account for now)
• ...

More information:

This bot is running on NodeJS 16, we havent tested it on older/newer versions, because this is a side project, and our main project Yukiko is running on NodeJS 16.

This bot is owned by Stellar Corporation