#! /usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Copyright (C) 2019-2022 Jean-Christophe Francois
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see .
"""
import argparse
import datetime
import logging
import os
import random
import re
import shutil
import sqlite3
import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path
from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qsl, urlencode, urlunparse
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, element
from mastodon import Mastodon, MastodonError, MastodonAPIError, MastodonIllegalArgumentError
# Number of records to keep in db table for each twitter account
MAX_REC_COUNT = 50
# Set the desired verbosity of logging
# One of logging.DEBUG, logging.INFO, logging.WARNING, logging.ERROR, logging.CRITICAL
LOGGING_LEVEL = logging.DEBUG
# How many seconds to wait before giving up on a download (except video download)
HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT = 10
NITTER_URLS = [
'https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr',
'https://nitter.pussthecat.org',
'https://nitter.fdn.fr',
'https://nitter.eu',
'https://nitter.namazso.eu',
'https://n.l5.ca',
'https://nitter.bus-hit.me',
]
# Update from https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent/
USER_AGENTS = [
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/107.0.1418.42',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:107.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/107.0',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/5.4.2753.51',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/107.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/5.4.2753.51',
]
def deredir_url(url):
"""
Given a URL, return the URL that the page really downloads from
:param url: url to be de-redirected
:return: direct url
"""
# Get a copy of the default headers that requests would use
headers = requests.utils.default_headers()
# Update default headers with randomly selected user agent
headers.update(
{
'User-Agent': USER_AGENTS[random.randint(0, len(USER_AGENTS) - 1)],
}
)
ret = None
try:
# Download the page
ret = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=5)
except:
# If anything goes wrong keep the URL intact
return url
if ret.url != url:
logging.debug("Removed redirection from: " + url + " to: " + ret.url)
# Return the URL that the page was downloaded from
return ret.url
def _remove_trackers_query(query_str):
"""
private function
Given a query string from a URL, strip out the known trackers
:param query_str: query to be cleaned
:return: query cleaned
"""
# Avalaible URL tracking parameters :
# UTM tags by Google Ads, M$ Ads, ...
# tag by TikTok
# tags by Snapchat
# tags by Facebook
params_to_remove = {
"gclid", "_ga", "gclsrc", "dclid",
"utm_source", "utm_medium", "utm_campaign", "utm_term", "utm_content", "utm_cid", "utm_reader", "utm_name", "utm_referrer", "utm_social", "utm_social-type",
"mkt_tok",
"campaign_name", "ad_set_name", "campaign_id", "ad_set_id",
"fbclid", "campaign_name", "ad_set_name", "ad_set_id", "media", "interest_group_name", "ad_set_id"
"igshid",
"cvid", "oicd", "msclkid",
"soc_src", "soc_trk",
"_openstat", "yclid",
"xtor", "xtref", "adid",
}
query_to_clean = dict(parse_qsl(query_str, keep_blank_values=True))
query_cleaned = [(k, v) for k, v in query_to_clean.items() if k not in params_to_remove]
return urlencode(query_cleaned, doseq=True)
def _remove_trackers_fragment(fragment_str):
"""
private function
Given a fragment string from a URL, strip out the known trackers
:param query_str: fragment to be cleaned
:return: cleaned fragment
"""
params_to_remove = {
"Echobox",
}
if '=' in fragment_str:
fragment_str = fragment_str.split('&')
query_cleaned = [i for i in fragment_str if i.split('=')[0] not in params_to_remove]
fragment_str = '&'.join(query_cleaned)
return fragment_str
def clean_url(dirty_url):
"""
Given a URL, return it with the UTM parameters removed from query and fragment
:param dirty_url: url to be cleaned
:return: url cleaned
>>> clean_url('https://example.com/video/this-aerial-ropeway?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=Nov13&a=aaa&b=1#mkt_tok=tik&mkt_tik=tok')
'https://example.com/video/this-aerial-ropeway?a=aaa&b=1#mkt_tik=tok'
"""
url_parsed = urlparse(dirty_url)
cleaned_url = urlunparse([
url_parsed.scheme,
url_parsed.netloc,
url_parsed.path,
url_parsed.params,
_remove_trackers_query(url_parsed.query),
_remove_trackers_fragment(url_parsed.fragment)
])
if cleaned_url != dirty_url:
logging.debug('Cleaned URL from: ' + dirty_url + ' to: ' + cleaned_url)
return cleaned_url
def process_media_body(tt_iter, remove_redir, remove_trackers):
"""
Receives an iterator over all the elements contained in the tweet-text container.
Processes them to make them suitable for posting on Mastodon
:param tt_iter: iterator over the HTML elements in the text of the tweet
:param remove_redir: bool to indicate if redirections should be removed
:param remove_trackers: bool to indicate if trackers should be removed
:return: cleaned up text of the tweet
"""
tweet_text = ''
# Iterate elements
for tag in tt_iter:
# If element is plain text, copy it verbatim
if isinstance(tag, element.NavigableString):
tweet_text += tag.string
# If it is an 'a' html tag
elif tag.name == 'a':
tag_text = tag.get_text()
if tag_text.startswith('@'):
# Only keep user name
tweet_text += tag_text
elif tag_text.startswith('#'):
# Only keep hashtag text
tweet_text += tag_text
else:
# This is a real link
if remove_redir:
url = deredir_url(tag.get('href'))
else:
url = tag.get('href')
if remove_trackers:
tweet_text += clean_url(url)
else:
tweet_text += url
else:
logging.warning("No handler for tag in twitter text: " + tag.prettify())
return tweet_text
def process_card(nitter_url, card_container):
"""
Extract image from card in case mastodon does not do it
:param card_container: soup of 'a' tag containing card markup
:return: list with url of image
"""
list = []
img = card_container.div.div.img
if img is not None:
image_url = nitter_url + img.get('src')
list.append(image_url)
logging.debug('Extracted image from card')
return list
def process_attachments(nitter_url, attachments_container, get_vids, twit_account, status_id, author_account):
"""
Extract images or video from attachments. Videos are downloaded on the file system.
:param nitter_url: url of nitter mirror
:param attachments_container: soup of 'div' tag containing attachments markup
:param get_vids: whether to download videos or not
:param twit_account: name of twitter account
:param status_id: id of tweet being processed
:param author_account: author of tweet with video attachment
:return: list with url of images
"""
# Collect url of images
pics = []
images = attachments_container.find_all('a', class_='still-image')
for image in images:
pics.append(nitter_url + image.get('href'))
logging.debug('collected ' + str(len(pics)) + ' images from attachments')
# Download nitter video (converted animated GIF)
gif_class = attachments_container.find('video', class_='gif')
if gif_class is not None:
gif_video_file = nitter_url + gif_class.source.get('src')
video_path = os.path.join('output', twit_account, status_id, author_account, status_id)
os.makedirs(video_path, exist_ok=True)
# Open directory for writing file
orig_dir = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(video_path)
with requests.get(gif_video_file, stream=True, timeout=HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT) as r:
try:
# Raise exception if response code is not 200
r.raise_for_status()
# Download chunks and write them to file
with open('gif_video.mp4', 'wb') as f:
for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size=16 * 1024):
f.write(chunk)
logging.debug('Downloaded video of GIF animation from attachments')
except: # Don't do anything if video can't be found or downloaded
logging.debug('Could not download video of GIF animation from attachments')
pass
# Close directory
os.chdir(orig_dir)
# Download twitter video
vid_in_tweet = False
vid_class = attachments_container.find('div', class_='video-container')
if vid_class is not None:
if get_vids:
import youtube_dl
video_file = os.path.join('https://twitter.com', author_account, 'status', status_id)
ydl_opts = {
'outtmpl': "output/" + twit_account + "/" + status_id + "/%(id)s.%(ext)s",
'format': "best[width<=500]",
'socket_timeout': 60,
'quiet': True,
}
with youtube_dl.YoutubeDL(ydl_opts) as ydl:
try:
ydl.download([video_file])
except Exception as e:
logging.warn('Error downloading twitter video: ' + str(e))
vid_in_tweet = True
else:
logging.debug('downloaded twitter video from attachments')
return pics, vid_in_tweet
def contains_class(body_classes, some_class):
"""
:param body_classes: list of classes to search
:param some_class: class that we are interested in
:return: True if found, false otherwise
"""
found = False
for body_class in body_classes:
if body_class == some_class:
found = True
return found
def is_time_valid(timestamp, max_age, min_delay):
ret = True
# Check that the tweet is not too young (might be deleted) or too old
age_in_hours = (time.time() - float(timestamp)) / 3600.0
min_delay_in_hours = min_delay / 60.0
max_age_in_hours = max_age * 24.0
if age_in_hours < min_delay_in_hours or age_in_hours > max_age_in_hours:
ret = False
return ret
def login(instance, account, password):
# Create Mastodon application if it does not exist yet
if not os.path.isfile(instance + '.secret'):
try:
Mastodon.create_app(
'twoot',
api_base_url='https://' + instance,
to_file=instance + '.secret'
)
except MastodonError as me:
logging.fatal('failed to create app on ' + instance)
logging.fatal(me)
sys.exit(-1)
# Log in to Mastodon instance
try:
mastodon = Mastodon(
client_id=instance + '.secret',
api_base_url='https://' + instance
)
mastodon.log_in(
username=account,
password=password,
to_file=account + ".secret"
)
logging.info('Logging in to ' + instance)
except MastodonError as me:
logging.fatal('ERROR: Login to ' + instance + ' Failed')
logging.fatal(me)
sys.exit(-1)
# Check ratelimit status
logging.debug('Ratelimit allowed requests: ' + str(mastodon.ratelimit_limit))
logging.debug('Ratelimit remaining requests: ' + str(mastodon.ratelimit_remaining))
logging.debug('Ratelimit reset time: ' + time.asctime(time.localtime(mastodon.ratelimit_reset)))
logging.debug('Ratelimit last call: ' + time.asctime(time.localtime(mastodon.ratelimit_lastcall)))
return mastodon
def main(argv):
# Start stopwatch
start_time = time.time()
# Build parser for command line arguments
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='toot tweets.')
parser.add_argument('-t', metavar='', action='store', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-i', metavar='', action='store', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-m', metavar='', action='store', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-p', metavar='', action='store', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-r', action='store_true', help='Also post replies to other tweets')
parser.add_argument('-s', action='store_true', help='Suppress retweets')
parser.add_argument('-l', action='store_true', help='Remove link redirection')
parser.add_argument('-u', action='store_true', help='Remove trackers from URLs')
parser.add_argument('-v', action='store_true', help='Ingest twitter videos and upload to Mastodon instance')
parser.add_argument('-a', metavar='', action='store', type=float, default=1)
parser.add_argument('-d', metavar='', action='store', type=float, default=0)
parser.add_argument('-c', metavar='', action='store', type=int, default=0)
# Parse command line
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
twit_account = args['t']
mast_instance = args['i']
mast_account = args['m']
mast_password = args['p']
tweets_and_replies = args['r']
suppress_retweets = args['s']
remove_redir = args['l']
remove_trackers = args['u']
get_vids = args['v']
max_age = float(args['a'])
min_delay = float(args['d'])
cap = int(args['c'])
# Remove previous log file
# try:
# os.remove(twit_account + '.log')
# except FileNotFoundError:
# pass
# Setup logging to file
logging.basicConfig(
filename=twit_account + '.log',
level=LOGGING_LEVEL,
format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s',
datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
)
logging.info('Running with the following parameters:')
logging.info(' -t ' + twit_account)
logging.info(' -i ' + mast_instance)
logging.info(' -m ' + mast_account)
logging.info(' -r ' + str(tweets_and_replies))
logging.info(' -s ' + str(suppress_retweets))
logging.info(' -l ' + str(remove_redir))
logging.info(' -u ' + str(remove_trackers))
logging.info(' -v ' + str(get_vids))
logging.info(' -a ' + str(max_age))
logging.info(' -d ' + str(min_delay))
logging.info(' -c ' + str(cap))
# Try to open database. If it does not exist, create it
sql = sqlite3.connect('twoot.db')
db = sql.cursor()
db.execute('''CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS toots (twitter_account TEXT, mastodon_instance TEXT,
mastodon_account TEXT, tweet_id TEXT, toot_id TEXT)''')
db.execute('''CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS main_index ON toots (twitter_account,
mastodon_instance, mastodon_account, tweet_id)''')
# Select random nitter instance to fetch updates from
nitter_url = NITTER_URLS[random.randint(0, len(NITTER_URLS) - 1)]
# **********************************************************
# Load twitter page of user. Process all tweets and generate
# list of dictionaries ready to be posted on Mastodon
# **********************************************************
# To store content of all tweets from this user
tweets = []
# Initiate session
session = requests.Session()
# Get a copy of the default headers that requests would use
headers = requests.utils.default_headers()
# Update default headers with randomly selected user agent
headers.update(
{
'User-Agent': USER_AGENTS[random.randint(0, len(USER_AGENTS) - 1)],
'Cookie': 'replaceTwitter=; replaceYouTube=; hlsPlayback=on; proxyVideos=',
}
)
url = nitter_url + '/' + twit_account
# Use different page if we need to handle replies
if tweets_and_replies:
url += '/with_replies'
# Download twitter page of user
try:
twit_account_page = session.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT)
except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
logging.fatal('Host did not respond when trying to download ' + url)
exit(-1)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
logging.fatal(nitter_url + ' took too long to respond')
exit(-1)
# Verify that download worked
if twit_account_page.status_code != 200:
logging.fatal('The Nitter page did not download correctly from ' + url + ' (' + str(
twit_account_page.status_code) + '). Aborting')
exit(-1)
logging.info('Nitter page downloaded successfully from ' + url)
# DEBUG: Save page to file
# of = open(twit_account + '.html', 'w')
# of.write(twit_account_page.text)
# of.close()
# Make soup
soup = BeautifulSoup(twit_account_page.text, 'html.parser')
# Replace twit_account with version with correct capitalization
ta = soup.find('meta', property='og:title').get('content')
ta_match = re.search(r'\(@(.+)\)', ta)
if ta_match is not None:
twit_account = ta_match.group(1)
# Extract twitter timeline
timeline = soup.find_all('div', class_='timeline-item')
logging.info('Processing ' + str(len(timeline)) + ' tweets found in timeline')
# **********************************************************
# Process each tweets and generate dictionary
# with data ready to be posted on Mastodon
# **********************************************************
out_date_cnt = 0
in_db_cnt = 0
for status in timeline:
# Extract tweet ID and status ID
tweet_id = status.find('a', class_='tweet-link').get('href').strip('#m')
status_id = tweet_id.split('/')[3]
logging.debug('processing tweet %s', tweet_id)
# Extract time stamp
time_string = status.find('span', class_='tweet-date').a.get('title')
try:
timestamp = datetime.datetime.strptime(time_string, '%d/%m/%Y, %H:%M:%S').timestamp()
except:
# Dec 21, 2021 · 12:00 PM UTC
timestamp = datetime.datetime.strptime(time_string, '%b %d, %Y · %I:%M %p %Z').timestamp()
# Check if time is within acceptable range
if not is_time_valid(timestamp, max_age, min_delay):
out_date_cnt += 1
logging.debug("Tweet outside valid time range, skipping")
continue
# Check if retweets must be skipped
if suppress_retweets:
# Check if this tweet is a retweet
if len(status.select("div.tweet-body > div > div.retweet-header")) != 0:
logging.debug("Retweet ignored per command-line configuration")
continue
# Check in database if tweet has already been posted
db.execute(
"SELECT * FROM toots WHERE twitter_account=? AND mastodon_instance=? AND mastodon_account=? AND tweet_id=?",
(twit_account, mast_instance, mast_account, tweet_id))
tweet_in_db = db.fetchone()
if tweet_in_db is not None:
in_db_cnt += 1
logging.debug("Tweet %s already in database", tweet_id)
# Skip to next tweet
continue
else:
logging.debug('Tweet %s not found in database', tweet_id)
# extract author
author = status.find('a', class_='fullname').get('title')
# Extract user name
author_account = status.find('a', class_='username').get('title').lstrip('@')
# Extract URL of full status page (for video download)
full_status_url = 'https://twitter.com' + tweet_id
# Initialize containers
tweet_text = ''
photos = []
# Add prefix if the tweet is a reply-to
# Only consider item of class 'replying-to' that is a direct child
# of class 'tweet-body' in status. Others can be in a quoted tweet.
replying_to_class = status.select("div.tweet-body > div.replying-to")
if len(replying_to_class) != 0:
tweet_text += 'Replying to ' + replying_to_class[0].a.get_text() + '\n\n'
# Check it the tweet is a retweet from somebody else
if len(status.select("div.tweet-body > div > div.retweet-header")) != 0:
tweet_text = 'RT from ' + author + ' (@' + author_account + ')\n\n'
# extract iterator over tweet text contents
tt_iter = status.find('div', class_='tweet-content media-body').children
# Process text of tweet
tweet_text += process_media_body(tt_iter, remove_redir, remove_trackers)
# Process quote: append link to tweet_text
quote_div = status.find('a', class_='quote-link')
if quote_div is not None:
tweet_text += '\n\nhttps://twitter.com' + quote_div.get('href').strip('#m')
# Process card : extract image if necessary
card_class = status.find('a', class_='card-container')
if card_class is not None:
photos.extend(process_card(nitter_url, card_class))
# Process attachment: capture image or .mp4 url or download twitter video
attachments_class = status.find('div', class_='attachments')
if attachments_class is not None:
pics, vid_in_tweet = process_attachments(nitter_url, attachments_class, get_vids, twit_account, status_id,
author_account)
photos.extend(pics)
if vid_in_tweet:
tweet_text += '\n\n[Video embedded in original tweet]'
# Add footer with link to original tweet
tweet_text += '\n\nOriginal tweet : ' + full_status_url
# If no media was specifically added in the tweet, try to get the first picture
# with "twitter:image" meta tag in first linked page in tweet text
if not photos:
m = re.search(r"http[^ \n\xa0]*", tweet_text)
if m is not None:
link_url = m.group(0)
if link_url.endswith(".html"): # Only process a web page
try:
r = requests.get(link_url, timeout=HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT)
if r.status_code == 200:
# Matches the first instance of either twitter:image or twitter:image:src meta tag
match = re.search(r'', r.text)
if match is not None:
url = match.group(1).replace('&', '&') # Remove HTML-safe encoding from URL if any
photos.append(url)
# Give up if anything goes wrong
except (requests.exceptions.ConnectionError,
requests.exceptions.Timeout,
requests.exceptions.ContentDecodingError,
requests.exceptions.TooManyRedirects,
requests.exceptions.MissingSchema):
pass
else:
logging.debug("downloaded twitter:image from linked page")
# Check if video was downloaded
video_file = None
video_path = Path('./output') / twit_account / status_id
if video_path.exists():
# list video files
video_file_list = list(video_path.glob('*.mp4'))
if len(video_file_list) != 0:
# Extract posix path of first video file in list
video_file = video_file_list[0].absolute().as_posix()
# Add dictionary with content of tweet to list
tweet = {
"author": author,
"author_account": author_account,
"timestamp": timestamp,
"tweet_id": tweet_id,
"tweet_text": tweet_text,
"video": video_file,
"photos": photos,
}
tweets.append(tweet)
logging.debug('Tweet %s added to list of toots to upload', tweet_id)
# Log summary stats
logging.info(str(out_date_cnt) + ' tweets outside of valid time range')
logging.info(str(in_db_cnt) + ' tweets already in database')
# DEBUG: Print extracted tweets
# for t in tweets:
# print(t)
# Login to account on maston instance
mastodon = None
if len(tweets) != 0:
mastodon = login(mast_instance, mast_account, mast_password)
# **********************************************************
# Iterate tweets in list.
# post each on Mastodon and record it in database
# **********************************************************
posted_cnt = 0
for tweet in reversed(tweets):
# Check if we have reached the cap on the number of toots to post
if cap != 0 and posted_cnt >= cap:
logging.info('%d toots not posted due to configured cap', len(tweets) - cap)
break
logging.debug('Uploading Tweet %s', tweet["tweet_id"])
media_ids = []
# Upload video if there is one
if tweet['video'] is not None:
try:
logging.debug("Uploading video to Mastodon")
media_posted = mastodon.media_post(tweet['video'])
media_ids.append(media_posted['id'])
except (MastodonAPIError, MastodonIllegalArgumentError,
TypeError): # Media cannot be uploaded (invalid format, dead link, etc.)
logging.debug("Uploading video failed")
pass
else: # Only upload pic if no video was uploaded
# Upload photos
for photo in tweet['photos']:
media = False
# Download picture
try:
logging.debug('downloading picture')
media = requests.get(photo, timeout=HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT)
except: # Picture cannot be downloaded for any reason
pass
# Upload picture to Mastodon instance
if media:
try:
logging.debug('uploading picture to Mastodon')
media_posted = mastodon.media_post(media.content, mime_type=media.headers['content-type'])
media_ids.append(media_posted['id'])
except (MastodonAPIError, MastodonIllegalArgumentError,
TypeError): # Media cannot be uploaded (invalid format, dead link, etc.)
pass
# Post toot
toot = {}
try:
mastodon = Mastodon(
access_token=mast_account + '.secret',
api_base_url='https://' + mast_instance
)
if len(media_ids) == 0:
toot = mastodon.status_post(tweet['tweet_text'], visibility='public')
else:
toot = mastodon.status_post(tweet['tweet_text'], media_ids=media_ids, visibility='public')
except MastodonError as me:
logging.error('posting ' + tweet['tweet_text'] + ' to ' + mast_instance + ' Failed')
logging.error(me)
else:
posted_cnt += 1
logging.debug('Tweet %s posted on %s', tweet['tweet_id'], mast_account)
# Insert toot id into database
if 'id' in toot:
db.execute("INSERT INTO toots VALUES ( ? , ? , ? , ? , ? )",
(twit_account, mast_instance, mast_account, tweet['tweet_id'], toot['id']))
sql.commit()
logging.info(str(posted_cnt) + ' tweets posted to Mastodon')
# Cleanup downloaded video files
try:
shutil.rmtree('./output/' + twit_account)
except FileNotFoundError: # The directory does not exist
pass
# Evaluate excess records in database
excess_count = 0
db.execute('SELECT count(*) FROM toots WHERE twitter_account=?', (twit_account,))
db_count = db.fetchone()
if db_count is not None:
excess_count = db_count[0] - MAX_REC_COUNT
# Delete excess records
if excess_count > 0:
db.execute('''
WITH excess AS (
SELECT tweet_id
FROM toots
WHERE twitter_account=?
ORDER BY toot_id ASC
LIMIT ?
)
DELETE from toots
WHERE tweet_id IN excess''', (twit_account, excess_count))
sql.commit()
logging.info('Deleted ' + str(excess_count) + ' old records from database.')
logging.info('Run time : %2.1f seconds' % (time.time() - start_time))
logging.info('_____________________________________________________________________________________')
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv)