hammurabot

A mastodon bot which sequentially posts the laws of the Code of Hammurabi at a random time, daily.

Motivation

• Historical fascination
• Homage to the whoever chiselled those rocks
• Interest in ancient governance (despite slavery and deep sexism, the lex talionis and presumption of innocence indicate the Code may have been progressive for its time)
• Test tech skills, first mastodon bot

Imagery

Avatar and header images are locally included in images/

• avatar image, a bust of Hammurabi, adapted from this wikipedia image
• header image, a section of the Code, is this wikimedia image

Text

Text is locally included in codeOfHammurabi.txt, sourced from Yale Law School, The Avalon Project

'Install'

# Clone this
git clone git@gitlab.com:DougInAMug/hammurabot.git

# Install the only dependency, toot https://toot.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ e.g.:
sudo apt install toot

# Login to target account with toot
toot login <your-account-url>

# Check if working (tell me if not!)
bash hammurabot.sh

# Add cron job: 0 0 * * * cd <your-path-to>/hammurabot && bash hammurabot.sh
crontab -e