A bot that handles actions on the Astronomy feeds, like signups. It will also eventually include moderation and DM tools.
The Astronomy feeds on Bluesky are a set of 'custom algorithms' that collate astronomy content on Bluesky. This repository is one component of a multiple-service system to host the feeds.
Create a fresh virtual environment with the Python version defined in runtime.txt. Then, install with pip install -e ..
Alternatively, you can use uv, which is now our preferred Python packaging tool.
You can start the webapp with the 'run' script, or the command
python -m astrobot
Note that it will sleep for ten minutes if it crashes, instead of restarting - this is a last-ditch way to try and prevent it from getting stuck in a spam-loop if something goes really wrong!