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MastodonBotPHP/LICENSE

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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2020 Gabriele Grillo
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.

MastodonBotPHP/Mastodon.php

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 <?php
+/*                                                                      */
+/*  This is a clone from https://github.com/Eleirbag89/MastodonBotPHP   */
+/*  Any changes that I made are minor, support their work.              */
+/*  I didn't know how to properly nest/fork with git, so I cloned.      */
+/*                                                                      */
 
     class MastodonAPI
     {

bot.php

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+<?php
+include_once 'MastodonBotPHP/Mastodon.php';
+
+/* The setup    */
+
+$token = 'NeA2lgL7EeKQHoYcYAhOdBKtI4e9kDlrqB5f-V4kEUI'; // Token of your Mastodon welcome bot account
+$base_url = 'https://bluenoser.me'; // URL of your instance (Do not include '/' at the end.)
+$visibility = 'public'; // "Direct" means sending welcome message as a private message. The four tiers of visibility for toots are Public , Unlisted, Private, and Direct (default)
+$language = 'en'; // en for English, zh for Chinese, etc.
+
+$instance_user = '@jeffsblogbot';
+
+/*              */
+// Functions
+/*              */
+
+// This function looks for the URL in a CSV file and returns the result or false.
+function find_status($filename, $url) {
+    $f = fopen($filename, "r");
+    $result = false;
+    while ($row = fgetcsv($f)) {
+        if ($row[0] == $url) {
+            $result = $row[1];
+            break;
+        }
+    }
+    fclose($f);
+    return $result;
+}
+
+
+// Step 0 - Create the site URL stuff
+
+$comment_record = 'comment_record.txt';
+
+$postTitle = $_GET['title'];
+$postURL = $_GET['url'];
+$postSummary = $_GET['summary'];
+$postImage = $_GET['image'];
+
+$postImage = str_replace("\\",'/',$postImage); // I need to do this because of a "thing" in the way that photos plugin creates the URL that has a strange slash
+
+// Step 1 - Check to see if this URL is in the text file, if so send them to the Status id there.
+
+$status_id = find_status($comment_record, $postURL);
+
+if ($status_id != false) {
+
+    //301 redirect to the mastodon status
+    http_response_code(301);
+    header('Location: '.$base_url.'/'.$instance_user.'/'.$status_id); 
+    exit;
+
+} else {
+    // Step 2 - If the URL isn't in the text file, create a new status with the post URL stuff
+
+    $mastodon = new MastodonAPI($token, $base_url);
+
+    // Step 2a - upload the image
+    $curl_file = curl_file_create($postImage, 'image/jpg', 'imagename.jpg'); // I'm not sure what the last variable in this is for, I will figure this out later.
+    
+    $body = [
+        'file' => $curl_file,
+    ];
+
+    $response = $mastodon->uploadMedia($body);
+
+    $file_id = $response['id'];
+
+
+    // Step 2b - Create the status
+    $status_text = $postTitle. ' -> '.$postURL;
+
+    $status_data = [
+        'status'      => $status_text,
+        'visibility'  => $visibility,
+        'language'    => $language,
+        'media_ids[]' => $file_id,
+    ];
+
+    $status_response = $mastodon->postStatus($status_data);
+
+    // Step 3 - Update Text file
+
+    $status_id = $status_response['id'];
+
+    $f = fopen($comment_record, 'a');
+    fputcsv($f, [$postURL, $status_id]);
+    fclose($f);
+
+    // Step 4 - Send them to the post
+
+    // 301 redirect to the mastodon status
+    http_response_code(301);
+    header('Location: '.$base_url.'/'.$instance_user.'/'.$status_id); 
+    exit;
+}
+
+?>

readme.rst

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+Here is the Bot for your Mastodon Comments
+==========================================
+