MastodonMegafono/megafono_bot.sh

#!/bin/bash

#
# CONFIGURATION
#

# Interval between two consecutive posts
SLEEP_INTERVAL=3h

# File containing the toots to post
DATA_FILE=megafono.txt

#
# CONFIGURATION END
#

extract_image() {
	sed -n -e 's/.*<img>\(.*\)<\/img>.*/\1/p' <<< $1
}

extract_text() {
	sed -e "s/<img>.*<\/img>/ /g" <<< $1
}

while :
do
	# Last line should be empty, so we dont need an additional read here
	# after the while loop
	while read line 
	do
		text="#avviso%0A"`extract_text "$line"`
		image=`extract_image "$line"`
		echo "[$(date)][INFO] Now tooting: $text"
		if [ "$image" != "" ]
		then
			echo "[$(date)][INFO] with image: $image"
			./toot.sh -i=images/$image $text >/dev/null 2>&1 &
		else
			./toot.sh $text >/dev/null 2>&1 &
		fi
		sleep ${SLEEP_INTERVAL}
	done < ${DATA_FILE}

done