bot-mastodon-live

This is a Mastodon bot, which uses the KGLW.net API to identify the latest setlist and then posts the song title of the last song in the setlist.

If a KGLW.net Staff Member is updating the setlist in realtime (this is an assumption), this bot will be posting each song title "as soon as" it's identified!

TODO

• move account to new server https://mastodon.social/@kinggizzbot
• tests
• types
• automatic day-of-show / "doors time" post, with venue name & link to kglw.net setlist (mark the start of the show )
  • add subsequent song-title posts as responses to this/these posts

Docs

• Mastodon.py

Ops

This bot runs via AWS Lambda, on Axe's personal account.

It is triggered by a webhook set up in the Songfish back-end, which fires whenever a setlist is edited.

The important part of the webhook payload looks like this:

{
  "body": "{ \"show_id\": 1694538236 }"
}

...but the actual payload includes more AWS-y stuff.

Setup

1. Create new Lambda Function...

• pick a name like "kglwBotMastodonLive"
• using Python (3.12 at time of writing)
• check-on "Enable function URL" ("Use function URLs to assign HTTP(S) endpoints to your Lambda function") ... once you've created this function, the "function URL" will be something like https://HASH_HERE.lambda-url.us-west-1.on.aws/
• Auth type: NONE — "Lambda won't perform IAM authentication on requests to your function URL. The URL endpoint will be public unless you implement your own authorization logic in your function"
  • TODO this is an area for improvement...
• other options left to default…
  • arch: x86_64
  • execution role: "Create a new role with basic Lambda permissions" ("Lambda will create an execution role … with permission to upload logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs")
  • Invoke mode: BUFFERED

2. set env vars so the Lambda Function sees 'em...