Simon WillisonFeb 3, 2023

Ported my @covidsewage bot over to Mastodon

Every morning it posts an image with the latest Covid sewage charts for various locations around the San Francisco Bay Area - because the sewage charts are the only figures I still trust!

The sewage doesn't lie

The screenshots come from https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater - here's the latest image:

Show threadSimon WillisonFeb 3, 2023

The bot runs entirely from this GitHub scheduled actions workflow: https://github.com/simonw/covidsewage-bot/blob/main/.github/workflows/toot.yml

It uses my https://shot-scraper.datasette.io/ CLI screenshot automation tool and the excellent https://toot.readthedocs.io/ Mastodon CLI utility

covidsewage-bot/toot.yml at main · simonw/covidsewage-bot

The @covidsewage bot. Contribute to simonw/covidsewage-bot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadSimon WillisonFeb 3, 2023
Amusingly, I found toot because I sat down to build myself a CLI tool for posting to Mastodon (an equivalent of my existing https://github.com/simonw/tweet-images tool) and checked PyPI to see if the name "toot" was available... and it had already been taken by a tool that did EXACTLY what I wanted to do
GitHub - simonw/tweet-images: Send tweets with images from the command line

Send tweets with images from the command line. Contribute to simonw/tweet-images development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threadGarth Kidd

The toot CLI @simon mentioned is lovely, and includes a 'toot tui' that could well prove faster for a quick check of your timeline than the usual web views.

(I keep trying to hit / to start searching, as if it's less, but it doesn't work. I know Python, though, so… hmm… https://github.com/ihabunek/toot)

GitHub - ihabunek/toot: toot - Mastodon CLI & TUI

toot - Mastodon CLI & TUI. Contribute to ihabunek/toot development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Feb 3, 2023 at 10:36amWeb