Post automatically confessions on a Facebook page, because the admin of UAntwerpen-Confessions seems to be dead.

This script is made on an Ubuntu 20.04 environment, so for setup on any other OS, you'll have to find out what works for you. (e.g. notifications will probably only work on Ubuntu)

Create a virtual environment and install the python dependencies from the requirements.txt.

Install the selenium drivers for Firefox. You can find plenty of tutorials online, like this one.

Once all dependencies are met, you can run the review.py file to start accepting/rejecting confessions. This uses a Flask interface on the default port (localhost:5000).

To post confessions on Facebook, a valid login session is required. You can generate this by running login.py, logging in to Facebook, hitting enter in the command line and only when the script is finished closing the browser.

With crontab -e, you can edit your cronjobs in Ubuntu. Append the lines from ua-confession-mirror.cron here to run the script every hour.

You can post using Facebook using selenium or using the Facebook Graph API. Using selenium is probably against Facebooks Terms of Services, so it's recommended not to use your main account for this. If you can generate a live token for your Facebook page for the Graph API (on developers.facebook.com ), I would recommend to use that, but this is currently impossible for individual users (only for businesses or in a development environment, where you are the only one that can see the posts).

This script will post a Warning on Facebook (after sending notifications to you) when people haven't written any new confessions past weeks or there are new confessions, but you haven't reviewed them for a long time.

It's The Unlicense, so do whatever you want, but don't come crying if something messed up everything.

Don't hesitate to contact me if you've still got any questions/suggestions.