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# Manicito
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Quote-post an entire hashtag on the fediverse!
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On [Mastodon](https://joinmastodon.org/), one can [“follow” a hashtag](https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/), seeing all public posts of a hashtag in their home feed. On [Pleroma](https://pleroma.social) (and some other fedi servers), however, this isn’t possible.
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The maniacal quote-poster [Manicito](https://hak.xwx.moe/jadedctrl/manicito) is a script that can help you mimic this feature — it quote-posts all posts of a given hashtag. Following a bot-account backed by Manicito is (to some degree) just like “following” a hashtag.
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## Usage
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To quote-post everything from the hashtag #esperanto, you could run Manicito like so:
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```
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$ FEDI_AUTH="yourAuthTokenHere"
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$ manicito -H esperanto.history esperanto https://yourServer.here
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```
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### Auth-key
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In order to actually use Manicito, we need to find the authorization token for our fedi account.
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To find your authorization token, you can snoop through request headers in Firefox or Chromium by
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navigating to `Developer Tools (F12) → Network → Headers`. Refresh your Mastodon/Pleroma page and examine a
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request, looking for a header like so:
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`Authorization: Bearer $FEDI_AUTH`
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… where $FEDI_AUTH is your token. Copy it!
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Whenever you use Manicito, make sure that this token is stored in the environment variable
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`$FEDI_AUTH`.
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### History-file
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However note up there the use of the `-H` parameter with `esperanto.history`. The file you pass to the `-H` parameter will be used to log all posts that have been quote-posted up until now; this helps us make sure that we don’t accidentally repost things.
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If you want to use Manicito as the basis of a hashtag-bot (regularly updating and posting), you can add it to your crontab or write a systemd service + timer. Though note that in this case you will *need* to make sure `-H` is set to a reliable and unchanging path. Otherwise, it might go haywire.
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### Formatting
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Manicito’s post template is stored in the environment variable `$MANICITO_TEMPLATE`. By default, it is something along these lines:
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```
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$USER (<a href="$USER_URL">$USERHOST</a>) <a href="$POST_URL">posted</a> about $HASHTAG:
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<blockquote>$(echo "$POST" | head -c 200)</blockquote>
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```
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You can go ahead and set the environment variable `$MANICITO_TEMPLATE` to any string you want. As you can see above, it has some shell-style variables that get substituted. They are:
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* `USER_URL`
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* `USERHOST`
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* `POST`
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* `POST_URL`
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* `HASHTAG`
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### Compatibility
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By default, Manicito attemps *quote-posting*, which is a feature that allows posts to be indirectly cited (and often prettily displayed) within other posts. This is supported by Pleroma and Misskey, but not by Mastodon.
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If you are using Mastodon, you might want to use the `-Q` flag, which disables this feature.
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## Installation
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Installing Manicito’s quite easy — just copy it into your `$PATH`!
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```
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$ cp manicito ~/.local/bin/
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```
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There, you’ve done it!
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## Misc.
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Author: [@jadedctrl:jam.xwx.moe](https://jam.xwx.moe/users/jadedctrl)
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Source: https://hak.xwx.moe/jadedctrl/manicito
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License: [GPLv3](COPYING)
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