mastodon toot a photostream make and destroy toots in a time intervall

toot_a_photostream.sh

!/bin/bash
#crontab
#for crontab use always full path or EXPORT
#crontabline : */15 * * * * /full/path/toot_a_photostream.sh >/full/path/error.txt 2>&1

fullpath_dir="/home/foo/bin/stream"
fullpath_toot="/usr/bin/toot"
source_url="https://webcams.lolo.de/Webcam1/webcam/current.jpg"
toottext="your txt $(date +%H:%M) . Every 15 minutes a snapshot!"
tootid="$(cat $fullpath_dir/toot_id.txt)"

#sleep 100
if [ -z "$tootid" ]; then
    echo "still no ID"
else
$fullpath_toot delete $tootid
fi
sleep 1
/usr/bin/wget --no-use-server-timestamps $fullpath_dir/$(date +%m_%d_%y) $source_url -O $fullpath_dir/$(date +%m_%d_%y)/$(date +%H_%M).jpg

tooturl="$(echo "$toottext"| $fullpath_toot post --media $fullpath_dir/$(date +%m_%d_%y)/$(date +%H_%M).jpg)"
echo "${tooturl##*/}" > $fullpath_dir/toot_id.txt

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Needs command line tool "toot"

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update 01.05.2024 Jetzt mit Variablen