CloudBot
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About
CloudBot is a bot for posting clouds[1]... or posting images to the cloud (fedi), anyway.
The basic idea is that there will be a folder containing images to post, and at some regular interval the bot will choose one image from that folder, post it, and remove it from the folder.
Features
Version 1
- automatic resizing of images
- we don't need to be taking up space on everyone's servers with high-resolution originals
- some creators may want to offer higher-resolution versions for download in some form
- automatic captioning of images
- default is a generic description ("an original photograph of clouds, taken $date/$time")
- specific image descriptions entered by the creator could be in a meta-file or something, and would override or supplement the default
For planned features, see future.
Configuration
It should be possible to configure the bot in at least these particular ways:
- connection details (host and API key, I think) for fedi account to use
- file-path for source folder(s)
- file-path for where to move the images afterwards
- (handled by
cron) time-interval for posting - maximum height or width of image as posted
- default text to accompany each image
Footnote
- ↑ That's where the name originally came from, anyway: I have a lot of photos of clouds, and wanted a way to automatically post them to fedi. I also have other photos I want to automatically post, so I decided to retro-canon the name as being about where the images are posted rather than the specific type of image.