mastodon-image-bot
A very simple account to allow posting images regularly from a mastodon account
Description
This bot allows specific senders to DM images to the bot that should be sent by the bot later. This lets the owner of an image bot fill the bot's queue easily using their regular Mastodon client.
Each time the bot runs it will attempt to find an image that is suitable for posting by looking through DMs that have been sent to the bot. If one is found then the same toot will be resent (with the leading "@botname ") removed. It will preserve the rest of the toot's body, the CW, etc.
The notification of that DM will then be cleared so that the same image will not be posted again.
The following options can be modified in the "options" section of the config file: - random: Pick a random post from the queue to send.
- sendOldest: By default the oldest applicable toot will be sent. If false
then the most recent applicable toot will be sent instead.
- times: A list of strings, each containing a time of day that the bot
should post.
A time value may be followed by a / and a value to indicate that it should
only run every n times.
A time value may also be followed by a > and a value to indicate that the
time should be skipped if there are not at least the sepcified count of
posts available to send.
Example:
Send at midnight. If there are at least 10 images in the queue then also
send at noon.
"times": [
"00:00:00",
"12:00:00 > 10"
"18:00:00 / 3"
]
- visibility: The visibility that should be set for new posts. May be:
'public' 'unlisted' 'private' or 'direct'. Default is 'public' and
'direct' is useful for testing.
- alltoots: By default only images will be reposted. If alltoots is true
then all DMs sent by an authorized sender will be applicable for reposting.
- boost: If true and there are no queued messages then the most popular toot
previously posted by the bot will be reboosted
The bot will respond to the following commands from authorized senders:
$count
Report the number of currently queued items
$review [<id> ...]
Send all (or specified) currently queued items as DMs to the sender