mastodon-markov

mastodon-markov is a Python bot that fetches posts from a source Mastodon account, trains a Markov chain on them, generates new text, and posts it to a destination account at random intervals between 30 minutes and 3 hours. It also periodically refreshes its dataset.

The Mastodon counterpart to bluesky-markov.

Status

Unmaintained.

Setup

pip install markovchain mastodon.py python-dotenv

Create .env in the project root:

MASTODON_BASE_URL=https://source.instance
MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_source_token
DESTINATION_MASTODON_BASE_URL=https://dest.instance
DESTINATION_MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN=your_dest_token
DESTINATION_MASTODON_CHAR_LIMIT=500
SOURCE_MASTODON_ACCOUNT_ID=12345

Run:

python src/main.py

Press Ctrl+C to stop. The script runs continuously, posting at random intervals.

Structure

• src/main.py — Orchestration
• src/mastodon_client.py — API interactions
• src/markov_manager.py — Markov chain logic and dataset refresh
• src/text_cleaner.py — Text preprocessing
• src/post_manager.py — Posting logic
• src/refresh_schedule.py — Interval scheduling
• src/env_loader.py — Environment variable loading

Licence

See repository.