CaNerDUH Presents: This Day In History for Mystic BBS
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README.md

CaNerDUH Presents:

This Day In History for Mystic BBS

This Mystic BBS mod which will display show random events from This Day In History. It is written with Mystic Python (MPY).

Installation

Requirements

  1. Python 3 working with Mystic BBS
  2. curl (to Download the JSON file)

Files

  1. Copy tdih.mpy to the scripts folder for your theme
  2. Copy the tdih.ans to the text folder for your theme

Cron job

In order to automate the downloading of the events each day you will need a cron job similar to this:

0 0 * * * curl -s https://history.muffinlabs.com/date -o /mystic/tdih.json

Just edit the path to the root directory of your Mystic BBS.

Mystic Configuration

Use Menu option GZ and tdih in the data field. (I like to launch mine from the prelogin menu.)