started work on service.py, the cron thing that actually downloads the posts

service.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+from mastodon import Mastodon
+import MySQLdb
+import requests
+from multiprocessing import Pool
+import json
+
+cfg = json.load(open('config.json'))
+
+def scrape_posts(handle, outbox):
+	# check for min_id
+	last_post = 0
+	r = requests.get(outbox)
+	j = r.json()
+	pleroma = 'next' not in j
+	if pleroma:
+		j = j['first']
+	else:
+		uri = "{}&min_id={}".format(outbox, last_post)
+		r = requests.get(uri)
+		j = r.json()
+
+print("Establishing DB connection")
+db = MySQLdb.connect(
+	host = cfg['db_host'],
+	user=cfg['db_user'],
+	passwd=cfg['db_pass'],
+	db=cfg['db_name']
+)
+
+c = db.cursor()
+
+print("Downloading posts")