https://github.com/arturbien/news-scraping-mastodon-bot

🤖 Mastodon bot posting news scraped with Headless Chrome / Puppeteer
https://github.com/arturbien/news-scraping-mastodon-bot

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🤖 Mastodon bot posting news scraped with Headless Chrome / Puppeteer

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arturbien/news-scraping-mastodon-bot
• Owner: arturbien
• Created: 2018-10-19T16:13:42.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-10-22T17:21:11.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-09T17:46:33.224Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 96.7 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# 🤖 News-scraping Mastodon bot

* Headless Chrome scrapes [watch news](https://www.watchtime.com/category/wristwatch-industry-news/)

* images are downloaded into `/images` folder

* scraped data is formatted and posted on [Mastodon](https://botsin.space/about) using Mastodon API

![example](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28541613/47305825-f8722200-d62a-11e8-863c-7c8c2fbcbe75.png)

## Installation

```

$ git clone https://github.com/arturbien/news-scraping-mastodon-bot.git

$ cd news-scraping-mastodon-bot

$ npm install

```

## Configuration

Create `.env` file in the root folder and fill it with your Mastodon credentials (see `.env.example`):

```

APP_ID=

APP_KEY=

APP_TOKEN=

```

Image path/extension/name settings (optional)  in `/config.js`

```javascript

module.exports = {

  image: {

    path: "./images/",

    name: "image_",

    extension: "png"

  },

  maxPosts: 5  //max number of posts

};

```

## Usage

```

$ node bot.js

```