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mastodon-toot-client

This is an attempt to build mastodon tooter client in rust-lang. It reads random location from given file and constructs message with geographical location before tooting to dedicated target mastodon channel.

Installation

To compile and execute this client below steps can be taken.

1. Create a new botsin.space account.
2. Use Access Token Generator for Mastodon API.
3. Create or Update .env file with extracted relevant tokens.
4. build rust-lang application using cargo build or cargo release.
5. On successful built, Run cargo run --bin main to test out logic to retrieve random location.
6. Run cargo test to execute test cases from lib.rs.
7. To send toot, Run ./target/debug/toot or ./target/release/toot.

Pre-requisite

Make sure cargo is installed before attempting to build this client.

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