I HAVE CREATED A MONSTER.
Behold the culmination of 4 and a half hours' work. Nerr_ebooks will, either by manual command or on its own over time, pull a random quote from the depths of Old Digi, squish it to fit 140 characters and post it to Twitter like a good little robot. It's completely pointless and certainly unoriginal, but it was a fun way for me to practice some coding and it may produce some amusing results as time goes on.
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The bash script picks a random number between the lowest post number on old Digi and the highest I could find at the time, then calls viewtopic.php?p=<number> to get the page for that post. It then runs the HTML through a series of string filters to find the specific post message, cut out any remaining tags and remove any leading whitespace or line breaks, then chops it down to a maximum of 140 characters. It then sends the resultant string to some open-source code which publishes the tweet via the Twitter API.
you better check you didnt have the wrong link