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@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ A list of nitter instances to use can now be specified in the config file
e.g. `nitter_instances = ["nitter.nl", "nitter.fdn.fr"]`.
If none is specified, a built-in list of 2-3 known good instances is used as before.
> Previous updates can be found in CHANGELOG.
## Features
@ -115,14 +114,14 @@ twitter and uploaded on Mastodon. The check is very fast if there is no update.
Use `tweet_time_format` option in configuration file to specify the datetime format to display the date
at which the tweet was published next to the "Original tweet" link. Valid format specifiers are
the same as those used to format datetimes in python
(https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior).
(<https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior>).
e.g. `tweet_time_format = "(%d %b %Y %H:%M %Z)"`
An empty or missing `tweet_time_format` disables the display of the timestamp.
By default, dates are specified in UTC time zone. To convert the timestamp to another time zone,
use the `tweet_timezone` option in configuration file. Valid time zone names are those of the Olson time
zone database (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database)
zone database (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database>)
e.g. `tweet_timezone = "Europe/Paris"`
### Rate control
@ -137,10 +136,10 @@ No limitation is applied to the number of toots uploaded if `-c` is not specifie
Make sure python3 is installed.
Twoot depends on `beautifulsoup4`, `Mastodon.py` and `pytz` python modules. Additionally, if you are using
a version of python < 3.11 you also need to install the `tomli` module.
Twoot depends on `requests`, `beautifulsoup4`, `Mastodon.py` and `pytz` python modules.
Additionally, if you are using a version of python < 3.11 you also need to install the `tomli` module.
**Only If you plan to download videos** with the `-v` switch, are the additional dependencies required:
**Only If you plan to download videos** with the `-v` switch, are additional dependencies required:
* Python module `youtube-dl2`
* [ffmpeg](https://ffmpeg.org/download.html) (installed with the package manager of your distribution)

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@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qsl, urlencode, urlunparse, urljoin, un
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, element
from mastodon import Mastodon, MastodonError, MastodonAPIError, MastodonIllegalArgumentError
import pytz
# Number of records to keep in db table for each twitter account
MAX_REC_COUNT = 50
@ -1064,7 +1065,6 @@ def main(argv):
if TOML['options']['tweet_time_format'] != "":
timestamp_display = timestamp
# Adjust timezone
import pytz
if TOML['options']['tweet_timezone'] != "":
timezone_display = pytz.timezone(TOML['options']['tweet_timezone'])
else: # Use local timezone by default