giteacat/README.md

giteacat

This Python script allows sign up to a Gitea instance to all local users of a Mastodon server.

Dependencies

• Python 3
• Gitea running server with admin access account
• Mastodon's bot account

Usage

From the Mastodon's server account where this bot is running:

@bot_username registre

Installation

1. Clone this repo: git clone https://git.mastodont.cat/spla/giteacat.git

2. cd into your and create the Python Virtual Environment: python3.x -m venv .

3. Activate the Python Virtual Environment: source bin/activate

4. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install needed libraries.

5. Run python setup.py to setup the Mastodon bot account, bot's access tokens, gitea hostname and gitea access token (admin account).

6. Use your favourite scheduling method to set python giteacat.py to run every minute.