Slack-Mastodon-Bot

A bot that provides Slack notifications about a Mastodon account's activity.

Requirements

• Python 3
• Mastodon.py
• SlackClient

Installation

1. Create a new bot user on your Slack team and make note of the authentication token.
2. Clone the repository to a system that has high uptime.
3. Configure the settings in Slack-Mastodon-Bot.py.
4. Run Slack-Mastodon-Bot.py manually to intiailize the bot and ensure there are no errors.
5. Using a service like crontab, add a rule to run the script every 5 minutes. If you like fast updates, then you can use 1 minute instead.