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# Ticketfrei social bot
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Version: 2.0beta
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Ticketfrei is a mastodon/twitter/mail bot to dodge ticket controllers in public
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transport systems.
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The functionality is simple: it retweets every tweet where it is mentioned.
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This leads to a community which evolves around it; if you see ticket
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controllers, you tweet their location and mention the bot. The bot then
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retweets your tweet and others can read the info and think twice if they want
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to buy a ticket. If enough people, a critical mass, participate for the bot to
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become reliable, you have positive self-reinforcing dynamics.
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Today, you can use a Twitter, a Mastodon, and Mail with the account. They will
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communicate with each other; if someone warns others via Mail, Twitter and
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Mastodon users will also see the message. And vice versa.
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In version 2, this bot has received a frontend website. On this website, people
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can register an own bot for their city - the website manages multiple bots for
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multiple citys. This way, you do not have to host it yourself.
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In the promotion folder, you will find some (german) promotion material you can
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use to build up such a community in your city.
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Website: ticketfrei.links-tech.org
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More information: https://wiki.links-tech.org/IT/Ticketfrei
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## Do you want Ticketfrei in your city?
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Just got to ticketfrei.links-tech.org or another website where this software is
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running.
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* Register a twitter account
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* Register a Mastodon account
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* Register on the ticketfrei site
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* Configure account
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* The hard part: do the promotion! You need a community.
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### Maintaining
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There is one security hole: people could start mentioning the bot with useless
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information, turning it into a spammer. That's why it has to be maintained; if
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someone spams the bot, mute them and undo the retweet. So it won't retweet
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their future tweets and the useless retweet is deleted if someone tries to
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check if something was retweeted in the last hour or something.
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To this date, we have never heard of this happening though.
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### blacklisting
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You also need to edit the goodlist and the blacklist. You can do this on the
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website, in the settings of your bot.
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Just add the words to the goodlist, which you want to require. A report is only
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spread, if it contains at least one of them. If you want to RT everything, just
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add a ```*```.
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There is also a blacklist, which you can use to automatically sort out
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malicious tweets. Be careful though, our filter can't read the intention with
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which a word was used. Maybe you wanted it there.
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## Do you want to offer a Ticketfrei website to others?
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If you want to offer this website to others, feel free to do so. If you have questions, just open
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a GitHub issue or write to tech@lists.links-tech.org, we are happy to help and share best practices.
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We wrote these installation notes, so you can set up the website easily:
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### Install
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To Do:
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```shell
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sudo apt install python3 virtualenv uwsgi uwsgi-plugin-python nginx
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```
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* set up nginx
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* set up LetsEncrypt https://certbot.eff.org/
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* set up mariadb
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* set up uwsgi
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Install the necessary packages, create and activate virtualenv:
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```shell
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virtualenv -p python3 .
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. bin/activate
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```
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Install the dependencies:
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```shell
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pip install tweepy pytoml requests Mastodon.py bottle pyjwt
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```
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Configure the bot:
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```shell
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cp config.toml.example config.toml
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vim config.toml
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```
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This configuration is only for the admin. Users can log into
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twitter/mastodon/mail and configure their personal bot on the settings page.
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