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Update README.md with warning not to flood with faulty toots and how to unlock the script.

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@ -12,4 +12,20 @@ Above this you need a twitter developer account to receive consumer and access k
## Usage ## Usage
After having filled in every information into the settings.json file you could use e.g. ```crontab -e``` on unixoid systems from shell and add a line like After having filled in every information into the settings.json file you could use e.g. ```crontab -e``` on unixoid systems from shell and add a line like
```*/15 * * * * python3 /home/username/mastobot/mastobot.py >> /home/username/mastobot.log``` which lets the script be triggered every 15 minutes. ```*/15 * * * * python3 /home/username/mastobot/mastobot.py >> /home/username/mastobot.log``` which lets the script be triggered every 15 minutes.
By default the script will be limited to 25 tweets per account for this period which should definitely be enough for a human account I think. By default the script will be limited to 25 tweets per account for this period which should definitely be enough for a human account I think.
## Warning
Before you start flooding your Mastodon instance accidently with hundreds of repeating posts, please test your adjustments by hitting
```python3 mastodon.py``` and have a look on the output. If the script breaks at any time the 'last_id'-parameters won't be updated and next time it will post exactly the same statuses again and again!
So make sure that the script run successfully at least once before you fire this gun!
## Unlock script
By default the script has commented out the commands to upload anything to your Mastodon instance (see 'Warning' above).
To unlock it just uncomment
```
# masto_photo = mastodon.media_post(tmp_path)
# masto_media.append(masto_photo)
...
# mastodon.status_post(mastodon_text, None, masto_media, True)
```
Please again start the script once by hand from commandline and _then_ start your cronjob if you wish to.