NodeBB post to Mastodon

created with Python

nodebb_post_to_mastodon

About

I needed the ability to post a new post to Mastodon in my NodeBB forum. It is configurable in the configuration which user of the NodeBB can post (UID)

This Python script will be started by a crontab job. Crontab will execute the shell script nodebb_post_to_mastodon.sh every minute. When the shell script starts the Python file main.py, it will check for a new post. If a new post is found, it will send the post to Mastodon.

This project is quite far from perfect, but it helped me a lot to understand the world of Python, PyCharm and git a little.

If it helps someone along the way as well, I'm glad. For questions and suggestions you can write me in my forum

Dependencies

• python >= 3.10
• pipenv
• git

Installation

Clone Repository

git clone https://gitlab.com/Bullet64/nodebb_post_to_mastodon.git

Create env

cd /home/<USER>/nodebb_post_to_mastodon

# We upgrade to last pip version
python -m pip install -U pip
pip install pipenv

pipenv --python 3.11
pipenv shell

Usage

Create crontab for

crontab -u <USER> -e

This script is triggered by a crontab job, which runs every minute. Line 2 is for debugging purposes by logging the output.

# m h  dom mon dow   command
#* * * * * /home/<USER>/nodebb_post_to_mastodon/./nodebb_post_to_mastodon.sh >> /home/user_nodebb/nodebb_post_to_mastodon/cron_log.log 2>&1
* * * * * /home/<USER>/nodebb_post_to_mastodon/./nodebb_post_to_mastodon.sh

Tested on

• Debian Bookworm 12

Known problems

None at present