A fediverse bot that posts a random Request for Comments (RFC) from the IETF in regular intervals.
Written in Rust, because of course.
Publicly deployed here.
cargo build, cargo run, cargo test etc. for the basics.
A .env file must be filled with the following data:
# Set this to your instance's base URL
instance_url=https://mastodon.example
# Obtained when creating your OAuth2 application, see https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/token/#app
client_id=...
client_secret=...
# Not strictly necessary, but keep it around anyways
vapid_key=...
# Obtained when authorizing the application with your account, see https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/authorized/
account_authorization_code=...
access_token=...
# Can apparently not be retrieved via API
character_limit=500
# Configure logging (see https://docs.rs/env_logger/latest/env_logger/#enabling-logging)
RUST_LOG=debug,yaserde::de=warn,yaserde_derive=warnRunning in release mode is recommended, since XML parsing takes very long otherwise.