Add a CLI task to publish events as the Ditto admin

scripts/admin.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import * as pipeline from '@/pipeline.ts';
+import { signAdminEvent } from '@/sign.ts';
+import { type EventStub } from '@/utils/api.ts';
+import { nostrNow } from '@/utils.ts';
+
+switch (Deno.args[0]) {
+  case 'publish':
+    await publish(JSON.parse(Deno.args[1]));
+    break;
+  default:
+    console.log('Usage: deno run -A scripts/admin.ts <command>');
+}
+
+async function publish(t: EventStub) {
+  const event = await signAdminEvent({
+    content: '',
+    created_at: nostrNow(),
+    tags: [],
+    ...t,
+  });
+
+  await pipeline.handleEvent(event);
+}

src/controllers/api/instance.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const instanceController: AppController = async (c) => {
     uri: host,
     title: meta.name ?? 'Ditto',
     description: meta.about ?? 'Nostr and the Fediverse',
-    short_description: meta.tagline ?? 'Nostr and the Fediverse',
+    short_description: meta.tagline ?? meta.about ?? 'Nostr and the Fediverse',
     registrations: Conf.registrations,
     max_toot_chars: Conf.postCharLimit,
     configuration: {

src/utils/api.ts

@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ export {
   activityJson,
   createAdminEvent,
   createEvent,
+  type EventStub,
   localRequest,
   paginated,
   type PaginationParams,