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1. Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 20:42:55 JST Fedi.Tips 🎄

   • Ivan Habunek
   • Vivaldi Version Tracker 🤖
   • Velocipede Rider
   • Browser Version Tracker 🤖

   @ruari @browserversiontracker @vivaldiversiontracker @ihabunek

   I've mentioned Toot as a command line app, didn't know about the script side of things. Thanks! 🙏

   • Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 21:32:16 JST Velocipede Rider

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     • Ivan Habunek
     • Vivaldi Version Tracker 🤖

     @feditips Well it just makes the posting part really simple as you can just pipe text into it from the command line. Here is a small excerpt from the shell script that posts the @vivaldiversiontracker information.

     @ihabunek

   • Velocipede Rider (ruari@velocipederider.com)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 21:32:20 JST Velocipede Rider

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     @feditips My "bots" (actually just automated posting) are tiny shell scripts run as cron jobs. At set intervals they use cURL to fetch information from the web, extract key values with tools like sed and grep and then post with Toot (if those values have changed since last time).

     I know it is not for everyone but the barrier for entry is fairly low if someone is at all command line savvy.