Installing Tootbot

As Tootbot is now on PyPI the easiest way to install Tootbot is by using Python’s pip tool like below:

pip install tootbot

First run of Tootbot

Before running Tootbot, generate a template config.ini file by using the following command:

tootbot_create_config

This will create a sample config.ini file in the current directory that you should then edit to suit your needs.

Once installed and configured you can start Tootbot with the command:

tootbot

On the first run, Tootbot will ask you for details as below: 1) Mastodon account Tootbot should post to 2) Reddit account details to use to access subreddits 3) Imgur account to use to download linked media from Imgur

Tootbot will store the relevant account details in a number of files ending in .secret in the current directory and will not ask for account details again.

Once Tootbot has collect all needed account details it will then start searching the subreddits defined in the config.ini file and post a toot to the configured Mastodon account.