I'm trying to work out how to format my @YiboSemiDaily posts in the new image-posting bot so that I can put line breaks in the post text.

The way it used to work in Cheap Bots Toot Sweet (putting \n in the post text) doesn't work in the new solution. Neither does simply putting a line break in the data cell for the post.

I suspect that there must be a way to encode it in the post so that the #MastodonAPI understands it, but I can't decipher the API spec.

#botmaking

oh btw I'm just using @nancebot for testing as I package this up. 😅

I'm refactoring things a bit so this is as plug-and-play as it can be; so basically all someone has to do it paste in their grammar, grab the tokens/keys/etc from mastodon and throw them in the config, and then schedule the bot to run.

#botmaking

The Twitter and Mastodon #botmaking guides are now combined into one comprehensive, definitive (?) article!

https://botwiki.org/resource/guide/the-definitive-guide-to-creative-botmaking/

Give it a read, and share any tips you might have!

#bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding

P.S. I also slipped in a few excerpts that're between 280 and 500 characters (so, ones that aren't in the Twitter version!!) and the next ongoing project I'll be working on will involve going back more systematically and adding more in in batches of 20 or so. So keep an eye out (though I'll most definitely post about it when I've added a batch). 👀

#bots #botmaking #VirginiaWoolf #queerhistory

yes I've dropped all my other hobbies and am spending basically all my free time combing through all the letters again to grab longer excerpts and location info (which the Twitter version/tweets don't have enough characters to support) for @VitaVirginiaBot , what of it? lol. #botmaking #VirginiaWoolf #VitaSackvilleWest #queerhistory

Wait, they're different??
Yep, I run [at]VitaVirginiaBot on Twitter through CBDQ, but the one on botsin.space on Mastodon uses on a python port of tracery I modified & set up on PythonAnywhere! Other updates are coming to the Mastodon version, too... #bots #botmaking #botsinspace