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+# I Hope This Email Finds You
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+Posts to Mastodon completions to the sentence "I hope this email finds you." All content is sourced from Google Books, based on searches for phrases that satrt with "finds you."
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+## Use
+
+Enter your Google API key into `finds_you.py`, then plug various phrases into the script. It will populate `finds_you.txt` as it goes. Edit all the cruft out of the lines of text, remote duplicates, etc. Then enter your Mastodon server and API key into `post.sh`. Create a cron job that will run `post.sh` periodically. Congratulations, you have a goofy Mastodon bot.