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# Twoot
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Twoot is a python script that extracts tweets from a twitter feed and
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reposts them as toots on a Mastodon account.
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**UPDATE 15 NOV 2022** VERSION 2.3 Added command-line option (`-s`) to
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skip retweets. With this option, retweets will be ignored and not posted
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on Mastodon.
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> Previous updates can be found in CHANGELOG.
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## Features
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* Fetch timeline of given user from twitter.com (through nitter instance)
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* Scrape html and format tweets for post on mastodon
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* Emojis supported
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* Upload images from tweet to Mastodon
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* Optionally upload videos from tweet to Mastodon
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* Specify maximum age of tweet to be considered
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* Specify minimum delay before considering a tweet for upload
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* Remember tweets already tooted to prevent double posting
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* Optionally post reply-to tweets on the mastodon account
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* Optionally ignore retweets
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* Allows rate-limiting posts to Mastodon instance
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## usage
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```
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twoot.py [-h] -t <twitter account> -i <mastodon instance> -m <mastodon account>
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-p <mastodon password> [-r] [-s] [-v] [-a <max age in days)>]
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[-d <min delay (in mins)>] [-c <max # of toots to post>]
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```
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## arguments
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Assuming that the Twitter handle is @SuperDuperBot and the Mastodon account
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is @superduperbot@botsin.space
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|Switch |Description | Example | Req |
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| -t | twitter account name without '@' | `SuperDuper` | Yes |
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| -i | Mastodon instance domain name | `botsin.space` | Yes |
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| -m | Mastodon username | `superduperbot` | Yes |
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| -p | Mastodon password | `my_Sup3r-S4f3*pw` | Yes |
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| -v | upload videos to Mastodon | *N/A* | No |
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| -r | Post reply-to tweets (ignored by default) | *N/A* | No |
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| -s | Skip retweets (posted by default) | *N/A* | No |
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| -a | Max. age of tweet to post (in days) | `5` | No |
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| -d | Min. age before posting new tweet (in minutes) | `15` | No |
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| -c | Max number of toots allowed to post (cap) | `1` | No |
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When using the `-v` switch consider:
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* whether the copyright of the content that you want to cross-post allows it
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* the storage / transfer limitations of the Mastodon instance that you are posting to
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* the upstream bandwidth that you may consume on your internet connection
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Default max age is 1 day. Decimal values are OK.
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Default min delay is 0 minutes.
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No limitation is applied to the number of toots uploaded if `-c` is not specified.
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## installation
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Make sure python3 is installed.
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Twoot depends on `requests`, `beautifulsoup4` and `Mastodon.py` python modules.
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```sh
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pip install -r requirements.txt
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```
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**Only If you plan to download videos** with the `-v` switch, are the additional dependencies required:
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* Python module `youtube-dl2`
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* [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html) (installed with the package manager of your distribution)
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```sh
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pip install requests beautifulsoup4 Mastodon.py youtube-dl2
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```
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In your user folder, execute `git clone https://gitlab.com/jeancf/twoot.git`
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to clone repo with twoot.py script.
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Add command line to crontab. For example, to run every 15 minutes starting at minute 1 of every hour
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and process the tweets posted in the last 5 days but at least 15 minutes
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ago:
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```
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1-59/15 * * * * /path/to/twoot.py -t SuperDuperBot -i botsin.space -m superduperbot -p my_Sup3r-S4f3*pw -a 5 -d 15
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```
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## Examples
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Twoot is known to be used for the following feeds (older first):
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* [@internetofshit@botsin.space](https://botsin.space/@internetofshit)
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* [@hackaday@botsin.space](https://botsin.space/@hackaday)
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* [@todayilearned@botsin.space](https://botsin.space/@todayilearned)
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* [@moznews@noc.social](https://noc.social/@moznews)
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* [@hackster_io@noc.social](https://noc.social/@hackster_io)
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* [@cnxsoft@noc.social](https://noc.social/@cnxsoft)
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* [@unrealengine@noc.social](https://noc.social/@unrealengine)
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* [@phoronix@noc.social](https://noc.social/@phoronix)
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* [@uanews@fed.celp.de](https://fed.celp.de/@uanews)
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## Background
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I started twoot when [tootbot](https://github.com/cquest/tootbot)
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stopped working. Tootbot relies on rss feeds from https://twitrss.me
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that broke when Twitter refreshed their web UI in July 2019.
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