.. _quickstart: Quickstart ========== Use twtxt's **quickstart** command to bootstrap a default configuration: .. code-block:: console $ twtxt quickstart twtxt - quickstart ================== This wizard will generate a basic configuration file for twtxt with all mandatory options set. You can change all of these later with either twtxt itself or by editing the config file manually. Have a look at the docs to get information about the other available options and their meaning. ➤ Please enter your desired nick [$USER]: ➤ Please enter the desired location for your config file [~/.config/twtxt/config]: ➤ Please enter the desired location for your twtxt file [~/twtxt.txt]: ➤ Please enter the URL your twtxt file will be accessible from [https://example.org/twtxt.txt]: ➤ Do you want to disclose your identity? Your nick and URL will be shared when making HTTP requests [y/N]: y ➤ Do you want to follow the twtxt news feed? [Y/n]: y ✓ Created config file at '~/.config/twtxt/config'. ✓ Created twtxt file at '~/twtxt.txt'. The quickstart wizard prompts for the following configuration values: - Your desired nick name, doesn’t need to be unique (**) - The desired location for your config file (**) - The desired location for your twtxt file (**) - The URL your twtxt file will be accessible from remotely (**) - If you want to disclose your identity. If True your nick and URL will be used in the User-Agent header attribute when fetching other twtxt files via HTTP, see :ref:`discoverability`. - If you want to follow the official twtxt news feed The configurations can easily be changed in the twtxt configuration file. See :ref:`configuration`.