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# ─── Required ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

# Twitter/X credentials
TWITTER_USERNAME=your_twitter_username
TWITTER_PASSWORD=your_twitter_password

# Session cookies — export from x.com using the Cookie-Editor browser extension
# Click Export → Export as JSON, then paste the entire JSON array on one line (no surrounding quotes)
TWITTER_COOKIES=[{"name":"auth_token","value":"..."}]

# ─── Feeds ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

# Path to the feeds file to use
# data/ai_security_feeds.json — 40 feeds: AI + cybersecurity only (recommended)
# data/rss_feeds.json         — 290 feeds across 9 categories
# data/tech_feeds.json        — 143 feeds: tech + cybersecurity + science
FEEDS_FILE=data/ai_security_feeds.json

# Optional: further filter to a single category within the chosen feeds file
# Options for ai_security_feeds.json: ai, cybersecurity
# Leave empty to use all feeds in the file
CATEGORY=

# ─── Tuning ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

# How often to poll all feeds (continuous mode only, ignored when RUN_ONCE=true)
POLL_INTERVAL_MINUTES=5

# Ignore articles older than this (set to match your cron interval + 1h buffer)
MAX_ARTICLE_AGE_HOURS=7

# Minimum gap between consecutive tweets (seconds)
TWEET_DELAY_SECONDS=90

# Max tweets per run — prevents flooding on first run or after a long gap (0 = unlimited)
MAX_TWEETS_PER_RUN=5

# Set to true for single-run mode (GitHub Actions / cron). Omit or set false for continuous loop.
RUN_ONCE=false

# ─── Meme / AI Posts ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

# POST_MODE controls what the bot posts:
#   news   — news articles only (default)
#   meme   — AI-generated humor/hot takes only
#   mixed  — news articles + one AI meme post per run
POST_MODE=mixed

# Groq API key — required for meme/mixed mode (free at console.groq.com)
GROQ_API_KEY=

# Imgflip credentials — fallback meme images after memegen.link (free at imgflip.com)
IMGFLIP_USERNAME=
IMGFLIP_PASSWORD=

# ─── Second Account (Tech Bot) ───────────────────────────────────────────────
# Used by .github/workflows/post_tech.yml
# Add these as GitHub Actions secrets: TECH_TWITTER_USERNAME, TECH_TWITTER_PASSWORD, TECH_TWITTER_COOKIES
# For local testing with the tech account, swap these values in and set FEEDS_FILE=data/tech_feeds.json

TECH_TWITTER_USERNAME=your_tech_twitter_username
TECH_TWITTER_PASSWORD=your_tech_twitter_password
TECH_TWITTER_COOKIES=[{"name":"auth_token","value":"..."}]