Specifying multiple conf/range.json files in config.json

[wdenton]

I think it would be useful to be able to specify an array of JSON range files in config.json, like so:

{
    "nick": "yourIrcNickHere",
    "accounts": [
    {
      "consumer_key": "",
      "consumer_secret": "",
      "access_token": "",
      "access_token_secret": "",
      "template": "{{page}} Wikipedia article edited anonymously by {{name}} {{&url}}",
      "ranges":  ["conf/range_one.json", "conf/range_two.json"]
      }
    ]
}

[edsu]

i'm curious to hear why this would be useful.

[wdenton]

In the general case, it could be useful to split ranges belonging to the same country or government but still tweet them from the same account: e.g. scotland.json, wales.json, england.json, northern-ireland.json, then call them all for a UK-monitoring account. It would add granularity permitting flexibility without further scripting to reparse config files.

In my specific case, I want an easy way to make a single bot that be the sum of all these existing bots, and tweet everything seen in all the ranges. With this I could just specify all the existing range config files and let it go. :)

[webmaven]

Yeah, as I've commented on the monsantoedits.conf, it really needs to be expanded to include all of Monsanto's subsidiaries: https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/seedindustry.html

And if subsequently similar accounts/conf files were created for Bayer, Dupont, Syngenta etc. and all their subsidiaries, they could also be combined into a GMOedits account without duplicating the conf files.