From b082811c549f1b1c2d76d256de5e334909769911 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waldo Jaquith Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:01:35 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Create README.md --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29d10f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +# I Hope This Email Finds You + +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." + +## 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.