shitposter.py posts a shitpost on Mastodon.

shitposter.py

# shitposter.py
# Requirements : Toot https://github.com/ihabunek/toot and a Unix-like system


import urllib.request
import random
import subprocess

word_url = "http://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/share/dict/words?view=co&content-type=text/plain"
response = urllib.request.urlopen(word_url)
long_txt = response.read().decode()
words_online = long_txt.splitlines()

words_local = open('/etc/dictionaries-common/words').readlines()

toot = ''
for i in range (random.randint(0,15)):
    for j in range (random.randint(0,6)):
        if j%2==0:
            toot += random.choice(words_online) 
        else:
            toot += random.choice(words_local)
        toot += ' '
toot=toot.replace('\n', ' ')

subprocess.call('toot post "{post}"'.format(post=toot), shell=True)