• toot
• systemd
• fortune-mod

Create an account to the desired instance, then login to that account with toot.

~/bin/dugbot

#!/bin/sh
toot post -l fr -u "[email protected]" "$(fortune -sn5000 dansunegalaxie)"

You will want to make sure the output of the command you give out to toot post isn't longer than the character limit allowed by your instance, or else it won't post. In this instance, you can set the -n parameter of fortune to that character limit so it can try to not come up with fortunes longer than this.

/etc/systemd/system/dugbot.service

[Unit]
Description=Post a random DUG quote to Mastodon
 
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/juju/bin/dugbot
User=juju

/etc/systemd/system/dugbot.timer

[Unit]
Description=Run dugbot every 30 minutes
 
[Timer]
OnCalendar=*:00,30
 
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

Enable the timer:

sudo systemctl enable dugbot.timer
sudo systemctl start dugbot.timer

Or run it once:

sudo systemctl start dugbot.service

• @[email protected] (Dans une galaxie près de chez vous quotes)
• @[email protected] (Radio Enfer quotes)