add installation instructions, fix cron example

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # TootBot Spicy Edition
 
 A small python 3.x script to replicate tweets and posts from soup.io on a mastodon account.
+It's based on TootBot: https://github.com/cquest/tootbot
 
 The script only need mastodon login/pass to post toots.
 
@@ -18,6 +19,23 @@ For Soup, it uses the official RSS feed (e.g. https://metalab.soup.io/rss), then
 A sqlite database is used to keep track of items than have been tooted.
 
 
-this script is based on TootBot: https://github.com/cquest/tootbot
+This script ist used by metalab: https://chaos.social/@metalab
+
+## Installation
+
+You may want to run it in a virtualenv:
+* Clone this repo with git.
+* Download an install virtualenv from the repository and package manager of your favor.
+* Create virtualenv: `virtualenv -p python3 ~/.virtualenvs/tootbot-spicy`
+* Activate your new virtualenv: `source ~/.virtualenvs/tootbot-spicy/bin/activate`
+* The `(tootbot)` in the prompt is indicating which virtualenv you are currently using.
+* switch into the projects directory: `cd tootbot-spicy`
+* Install requirements: `pip3 install -r requirements.txt`
+* copy the config-example: `cp config-example.json config.json`.
+* edit `config.json`
+* copy the cron-example: `cp cron-example.sh cron.sh`.
+* edit `cron.sh`
+* add cronjob for `cron.sh`: `crontab -e`
+* if you want to quit virtualenv environment, just type `deactivate`
 
 The script is simply called by a cron job and can run on any server (does not have to be on the mastodon instance server).

cron-example.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
-# activate virtualenv if necessary
-# source /home/cquest/.virtualenvs/tootbot/bin/activate
+#!/bin/bash
+MY_PATH="`dirname \"$0\"`"
+cd "$MY_PATH"
 
-python tootbot.py config.json
-python tootbot.py anotherconfig.json
+# activate virtualenv
+source ~/.virtualenvs/tootbot-spicy/bin/activate
+python3 tootbot.py config.json
+deactivate