tweaks I made while figureing out how this generates posts

config.def.json

@@ -6,5 +6,10 @@
 	"mention_handling": 1,
 	"max_thread_length": 15,
 	"strip_paired_punctuation": false,
+	"limit_length": false,
+	"length_lower_limit": 5,
+	"length_upper_limit": 50,
+	"overlap_ratio_enabled": false,
+	"overlap_ratio": 0.7,
 	"website": "https://git.nixnet.services/amber/amber-ebooks"
 }

functions.py

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def make_toot(cfg):
 	pin, pout = multiprocessing.Pipe(False)
 	p = multiprocessing.Process(target=make_sentence, args=[pout, cfg])
 	p.start()
-	p.join(5)  # wait 5 seconds to get something
+	p.join(300)  # wait 5 seconds to get something
 	if p.is_alive():  # if it's still trying to make a toot after 5 seconds
 		p.terminate()
 		p.join()
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ def make_toot(cfg):
 
 
 def extract_toot(toot):
+	toot = re.sub("<br>", "\n", toot)
 	toot = html.unescape(toot)  # convert HTML escape codes to text
 	soup = BeautifulSoup(toot, "html.parser")
 	for lb in soup.select("br"):  # replace <br> with linebreak

main.py

@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ import requests
 import functions
 
 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Log in and download posts.')
-parser.add_argument(
+parser.add_argument('-c', '--cfg', dest='cfg', default='config.json', nargs='?', help="Specify a custom location for config.json.")
-										'-c', '--cfg', dest='cfg', default='config.json', nargs='?',
-										help="Specify a custom location for config.json.")
 
 args = parser.parse_args()