Bloomscroller is a Mastodon bot that is run as a cron job in order to drip-toot a Piwigo gallery one image at a time.

Specifically, it was written for the @bloomscrolling@tooot.im bot that publishes photos from a gallery of flowers that grow in our garden (hence the name).

At config.py there are TOOT_TEMPLATE and ALT_TEXT_TEMPLATE that can contain fields from an album image’s json info. In my specific test case I don’t use {title} and {comment}, but they’re there if they’re useful for you.

Installing

• Run ./install.sh
• Edit config.py to suit your needs
• Run ./register.sh to register the bot with you mastodon server (make sure the instance’s policy allows you to run the bot).

Running

Run [/path/to/here]/run.sh. This can be done as a cron job.

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