welcome/README.md

Welcome

This bot welcomes your Mastodon server new users and post registering evolution hourly, daily and weekly.

Dependencies

• Python 3
• Postgresql server
• Mastodon running server
• Mastodon server's Bot account

Usage:

Within Python Virtual Environment:

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

2. Run python db-setup.py to setup and create new Postgresql database and needed tables in it.

3. Run python setup.py to get your bot's access token of your Mastodon or Pleroma server existing account. It will be saved to 'secrets/secrets.txt' for further use.

4. Run python welcome.py to get all peers from your host and the whole world of fediverse's servers (or almost the whole world).

5. Use your favourite scheduling method to set python welcome.py to run every minute.