Fediverse bot

Make creative online bots that anyone in the fediverse can follow! This project is under active development and contributions and feature suggestions are welcome.

• Import to Glitch (Learn more)

Bot administration

You can log into the admin panel by going to /admin and logging in using the password set inside your .env file. This will allow you to delete your bot's posts one by one. (Multi-post deletion is coming!)

Bot logic (the back end)

1. Update your bot's main script in bot/script.js.
2. Set up your bot's schedule in server.js.

(new CronJob(cronSchedules.EVERY_SIX_HOURS, () => {bot.script()})).start();

See helpers/cron-schedules.js for common schedules, or the cron package documentation at https://www.npmjs.com/package/cron to create your own.

The look of your bot's page (the front end)

You can update the style files inside src/styles. You can use sass, it will be compiled using node-sass-middleware. Update the scripts inside src/scripts.

You can use ES6, you script files will be compiled using express-babelify-middleware. All templates are inside the views folder and use handlebars.js.

TO-DO:

See issues on GitHub.

Resources:

• ActivityPub documentation (github.com)
• How to implement a basic ActivityPub server (blog.joinmastodon.org)
• What is necessary for Mastodon to be able to fetch my profile and a list of posts from my blog? (github.com)
• express-activitypub (github.com)

Debugging/testing

• webfinger output
• the Actor object