microtrace

Micro = microblog (Twitter, Mastodon) and trace = tracery. See, it's easy.

This used to be just my Twitter Blades in the Dark bot but when I got off Twitter I went the rest of the way towards generalizing it. You can find the output from one bot using this at https://botsin.space/@doskvolscores.

The old version of this is available at the branch blades-bot.

Usage

microtrace.py [-h] --grammar GRAMMAR [--maxlen MAXLEN] [--print]
                     [--toot] [--tweet] --config CONFIG

Tracery-based microblogging bot

options:
  -h, --help         show this help message and exit
  --grammar GRAMMAR  JSON grammar
  --maxlen MAXLEN    Maximum message length
  --print            Print
  --toot             Toot
  --tweet            Tweet
  --config CONFIG    Config file

Config

The configuration file is a TOML file, as follows:

[twitter]
consumer_key = "XXX"
consumer_secret = "XXX"
access_token = "XXX"
access_token_secret = "XXX"

[mastodon]
access_token = "XXX"
base_url = "XXX"

If you're not using it for one of the services, you can leave the appropriate section out.

Contributions

• Kate Compton's Tracery
• Allison Parrish's awesome pytracery port of Tracery
• Tweepy, which is nice and simple
• Mastodon.py, also simple and easy
• John Harper's Blades in the Dark, a tabletop RPG (with permission)
• Off Guard Games' Scum & Villainy, another tabletop RPG (with permission)