A side note @feditips since you write masto tips. Toot is really nice for automating posting from scripts. My @browserversiontracker and @vivaldiversiontracker are basically just short shell scripts powered by cURL to fetch information and Toot to post it.
With tools like these doing the heavy lifting simple info posting masto bots are pretty straightforward if you have basic command line skils.
You have probably written about these things before but I mention it nonetheless. 🤷🏼