HN_Masto_Bridge/README.md

HackerNews -> Mastodon Bridge

This repo contains config to consume the HackerNews RSS feed (https://news.ycombinator.com/rss) and to toot the messages to https://mastodon.pub.solar/@hackernews_bot, a mastodon bot.

The dockerfile builds a container that uses feed2toot. All stateful data is expected to be mounted under /data, namely:

• feed2toot.ini: config file in this repo
• feed2toot_clientcred.txt: from register_feed2toot_app script
• feed2toot_usercred.txt: from register_feed2toot_app script
• feed2toot_cache.db: cache file to register previous posts

Docker image was built like this and pushed to registry:

docker build -t registry.greenbaum.cloud/library/mastodon-hackernews-feed2toot:0.0.1 .
docker push registry.greenbaum.cloud/library/mastodon-hackernews-feed2toot:0.0.1

Initial deployment, just for documentation, don't run this for updates:

# Run the steps from Deployment of updates section
# After initial deployment, copy secrets and cache file to volume mounted on /data
❯ find . -name 'feed2toot*' -type f
./feed2toot.ini
./secrets/feed2toot_clientcred.txt
./secrets/feed2toot_cache.db
./secrets/feed2toot_usercred.txt

❯ for FILE in $(find . -name 'feed2toot*' -type f  -printf "%f\n"); \
  do \
    docker cp ./secrets/$FILE bot_mastodon-hackernews-feed2toot_1:/data/$FILE; \
  done
❯ docker cp ./feed2toot.ini bot_mastodon-hackernews-feed2toot_1:/data/feed2toot.ini

# Uncomment external option of volume

Deployment of updates:

1. Get tritonshell
2. Enter tritonshell for DC cgn-1

cd tritonshell
nix develop --command $SHELL
eval "$(triton env cgn-1-pub_solar)"
cd ..

# Optional
# Check for running container
docker ps -a | grep mastodon-hackernews-feed2toot

3. Update running container to a new version

docker-compose --project-name bot up --detach