README.md

twitter-tierkreiszeichenbot

A zodiac sign bot for twitter. Can post zodiac updates with a nice ASCII bar graph.

Active bots

• 🇩🇪 @SternzeichenB (German, tz=Europe/Berlin)
• 🇬🇧 @BotZodiac (British English, tz=Europe/London)

Features

• You can enable or disable the progressbar.
• You can set a custom progressbar length.
• Translated to German and English, more languages are easy to add.
• TimeZone support.
• Will change avatar (twitter profile picture) according to zodiac sign.
• (Coming) will react to simple questions.
• (Coming) custom ASCII art bar characters.

Configuration

See Wiki:Configuration.

How to start

You can start this spring boot application via script or command line like this:

# Switch to any java 11, in this example I use jabba.
# Just make sure JAVA_HOME and PATH are set correctly.
jabba use "adopt-openj9@1.11.0-2"
# start like this
java \
  -Duser.language=de \
  -jar ~/bin/tierkreiszeichenbot-bot-0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \
  --spring.config.location=file:$HOME/.config/sternzeichenbot.properties \
  --user.timezone=Europe/Sofia