viquicat/README.md

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viquiCAT

viquiCAT is a Wikipedia bot that reply queries to fediverse users from its related Mastodon's server account.
Query the bot is this easy:

@wikipedia_bot_account consulta <fediverse_users_query>

Dependencies

  • Python 3
  • Mastodon's bot account

Usage:

  1. Clone this repo: git clone https://gitlab.com/spla/viquicat.git <target dir>

  2. cd into your <target dir> 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 & access tokens.

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

21.3.2022 New feature Ray Parallel processing! The code replies all queries at the same time!