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| author | Arun Isaac | 2016-12-22 23:53:20 +0530 |
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| committer | Arun Isaac | 2016-12-22 23:53:20 +0530 |
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Add example crontab
* README.org: Add example crontab to run bot.
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@@ -1,7 +1,13 @@ This script screen scrapes data from the latest [[https://apod.nasa.gov/][NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)]] and posts it to a specified [[https://gnu.io/social/][GNU Social]] account. Run daily with a cron job, this script can be used as a bot that regularly -reposts NASA APOD images to GNU Social. +reposts NASA APOD images to GNU Social. For example, to schedule the +bot to run every day at 1200 hours, you would use the following +crontab. + +#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE +0 12 * * * /path/to/apod-bot.sh +#+END_EXAMPLE * License |