LIS Grievances

Because we all need to air our grievances some time

Read about the first five years here

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V3.5

• Automation is back
• full_otherdm.py can be added to crontab giving something similar to the following:

*/30 7-21 * * * /home/grief/lis_grievances/post_grievances.py

*/15 7-21 * * * /home/grief/lis_grievances/full_otherdm.py

V3.0

• Introduction of the Grief Index

V2.5

• Uses TWURL for DM interaction
• on account, checking needs to be done manually

V2.

• Supports Emojis! (finally)
• Of course, there is a patreon

Setup

OPTIONAL: Web files

• Install apache/nginx etc to display the web component
• Modify the html files to point to your account and avatar
• run sudo ./deploy_html to copy those files to the usual /var/www/html

Next

• create your _grievances account on twitter
• be sure to add a Mobile number as well or you won't get an API key
• generate Twitter API key
• be sure to allow access to DM in APP settings (see fig 1)
• run sudo ./install_pre to install necessary parts (Currently just tweepy) and generate settings file
• create a Google Form with one text box and get a pre-filled URL, check settings for details/example
• add relevate info about form and API account info to settings.py
• also add path of grievance text file to settings.py
• create a temp directory for downloaded image files, used in media posting, set in settings.py

Checking Grievances

• Enable TWURL in your session
• Run full_otherdm.py from an SSH terminal
• Will check for DMS and post to Google Form (with lots of in-between JSON manipulation, yes one day I'll fix)
• Can be added to cron as specified in V3.5 description

Posting Grievances

• Your job is now to add the grievances from the spreadsheet to hopper/grievances_to_air.txt, or where ever else you specified. Ie. use some discretion
• add post_grievances.py to crontab to fire at a reasonable time frame (once an hour on the 00s)
• once again chmod +x might be necessary
• There is very limited media support built in. If there is a URL to a GIF or JPG in a DM, it will post approriately, but that is pretty much it
• after a post it checks/kills any lingering DMs (like bork used to do)

Nag Grievances

• You can set nag_grievances.py to run once a day via cron to troll for more grievances
• chmod +x here too
• Add your nags to the text file point to at NAGLIST
• Ah, I don't really use this much, at all. I suggest you don't either

Bork Grievances

• Deprecated. no longer needed

**fig 1 **

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