Name: 4.2: Mastodon Bot - Setting up a Mastodon Bot
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T19:20:43.000Z
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(bell dings) - Hello, welcome to the second

Past simple

Mastodon video, in the first video I talked a bit

about what Mastodon is or at least my impressions

And in this video, the reason why I'm doing this,

to write crazy weird experimental avant-garde art bots.

so the first thing I'm going to want to do

is sign up for an account here, bots in space.

And I am going to say sign up with coding train bot

I'm going to use the password, ooh suggested password,

I love blueberries or heart heart rainbow.

Sure you'll all be able to guess my password really easily.

What is, what does this nonsense, go away!

Verify email address, ah, my email address has been...

verify my email, I have now put in my username and password.

I'm going to click log in, and now welcome to Mastodon.

This is my full handle at coding train bot at bots in space.

I'm not going to skip through this little tutorial here,

but first thing I'm going to do, very important,

but I want to go here and I want to click this is a bot account.

Because one of the nice things about Mastodon,

so I'm a hit save changes, we're down here

in the bottom there's a little option under development,

So I'm going to create a new application,

The website will just be thecodingtrain.com.

I want to, what do I want to be able to do, so.

Like maybe the bot can only read certain things,

But I'm actually going to keep the red global write checked,

as many posts as it wants, and it can follow.

So I'm going to hit submit and then I'm going to click here.

that I really do not want to share with anybody.

quickly just turn the screen off, no that's me.

I'm going to turn the screen off, there we go,

I'm going to regenerate that access token.

I'm going to go back to, I'm going to copy

actually I'm not going to worry about that now,

then I'm going to put the screen back, there I am.

So that you can't hack my bot at this moment.

I'm going to use node.js, which is a JavaScript framework,

And I am going to do all this from the command line.

So I, you're going to want to have node installed

you're going to want to have some shell access

And I'll link to different workflow videos

So, what I'm going to do is I'm in a directory,

I'm on coding train desktop Mastodon bot.

What this does is it starts up my node project.

This is going to create a package.json file,

which has all the configuration information

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4.2: Mastodon Bot - Setting up a Mastodon Bot

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