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Mastodon bot to send congratulations to people when added to a thread.
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congratbot

Congratulation bot for Mastodon, written in C++.

The congratbot binary can be used to back a bot account on the Fediverse. When mentioned, Congratbot replies to the message where it is mentioned with a congratulatory post according to its configuration.

You can tag it into posts where people are writing about their achievements or projects, and have them properly congratulated by a third party that is not just you.

Config File

The configuration is provided in text protocol buffer format, It contains the following settings:

instance_url (string): the name of the instance that contains the account. For example, example.org.

access_token (string): Mastodon access token the bot uses. This can be found under Development -> Applications in the Mastodon Settings UI of the bot account.

congrat_variants: sub-message containing a list of congratulation strings.

congrat_variants -> congratulation_message (string): option of text to use for replies. A Reply will be picked from this list at random.

Invocation

The command line arguments for the congratbot binary are as follows:

  • -c: followed by the path to the configuration file.