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mastodon-welcome-bot

Getting Started

This bot sends private messages to the latest follower of your welcome bot.

Prerequisites

• A php5.6+ environment to run your bot
• Crontab to run this script at a certain frequency
• User ID (an integer) of your welcome bot account
• Users must automatically follow this account when they sign up (configure in your Mastodon instance's admin panel)

Configuration

Follow these steps:

1. Put bot.php in a php environment such as a website hosting server.
2. Edit the configuration area in bot.php with the token of your Mastodon bot account, URL of your instance, your welcome messgaes, etc.
3. Create an empty file named newest_user_id.txt in the same directory.
4. Set the permission of newest_user_id.txt file to be writable.
5. Test running bot.php to see if it works.
6. Create a crontab to frequently run bot.php, for example, every 1 minute.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.