From 5667a5bb1dec6c15e46ab917773433b19db39c89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Isaac
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 02:11:10 +0530
Subject: Check bot authentication details.

* apod-bot.sh: Make API request just to check if bot username/password
are valid.
---
 apod-bot.sh | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/apod-bot.sh b/apod-bot.sh
index f05b8fb..5bd3952 100755
--- a/apod-bot.sh
+++ b/apod-bot.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ bot_password=secret-password-here
 
 apod_base_url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod
 
+# Check if the bot username/password are correct
+curl -sSfu "$bot_username:$bot_password" -o /dev/null $social_api_url/statuses/home_timeline.json
+
 # Download HTML page, and scrape required information
 apod_html=$(curl -sS $apod_base_url/astropix.html)
 
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