#! /usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Copyright (C) 2019-2023 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
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import logging
import os
import shutil
import random
import re
import sqlite3
import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path
from urllib.parse import urlparse, parse_qsl, urlencode, urlunparse, urljoin, unquote
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
# 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.cutelab.space', # USA, added 16/02/2023
'https://nitter.weiler.rocks', # added 15/06/2023
'https://nitter.nl', # added 16/06/2023
# 'https://n.l5.ca', # Not working 11/07/2023
# 'https://nitter.fly.dev', # gone 11/07/2023
# 'https://notabird.site', # gone 11/07/2023
# 'https://nitter.sethforprivacy.com', # too slow, removed 16/06/2023
# 'https://nitter.it', # different pic naming scheme
# 'https://twitter.femboy.hu', # 404 on 06/05/2023
# 'https://nitter.grimneko.de', # 404 on 01/06/2023
# 'https://nitter.namazso.eu', # lots of 403 27/02/2023
# 'https://twitter.beparanoid.de', # moved 27/022023
# 'https://nitter.fdn.fr', # not updated, rate limited, removed 06/02/2023
# 'https://nitter.hu',
# 'https://nitter.privacydev.net', # USA, added 06/02/2023, removed 15/02/2023 too slow
]
# Update from https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent/
USER_AGENTS = [
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/114.0',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/16.5 Safari/605.1.15',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/114.0.1823.51',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 OPR/99.0.0.0',
'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/6.1.3035.84',
]
"""
Temporary mitigation for unability to parse threads. Skip tweets that are part of a thread
"""
def has_class_timeline_item_but_not_thread(tag):
if tag.has_attr('class'):
classes = tag['class']
if 'timeline-item' in classes and 'thread' not in classes:
return True
elif 'timeline-item' in classes and 'thread' in classes:
logging.warning('Tweet is part of a thread which are a new nitter feature that is not handled yet. Skipping')
return False
else:
return False
else:
return False
def build_config(args):
"""
Receives the arguments passed on the command line
populates the TOML global dict with default values for all 'options' keys
if a config file is provided, load the keys from the config file
if no config file is provided, use command-line args
verify that a valid config is available (all keys in 'config' present)
:param args: list of command line arguments
"""
# Create global struct containing configuration
global TOML
# Default options
options = {
'upload_videos': False,
'post_reply_to': False,
'skip_retweets': False,
'remove_link_redirections': False,
'remove_trackers_from_urls': False,
'footer': "",
'tweet_time_format': "",
'tweet_timezone': "",
'remove_original_tweet_ref': False,
'tweet_max_age': float(1),
'tweet_delay': float(0),
'toot_cap': int(0),
'subst_twitter': [],
'subst_youtube': [],
'subst_reddit': [],
'update_profile': False,
'log_level': "WARNING",
'log_days': 3,
}
# Create default config object
TOML = {'config': {}, 'options': options}
# Load config file if it was provided
toml_file = args['f']
if toml_file is not None:
try: # Included in python from version 3.11
import tomllib
except ModuleNotFoundError:
# for python < 3.11, tomli module must be installed
import tomli as tomllib
loaded_toml = None
# Load toml file
try:
with open(toml_file, 'rb') as config_file:
loaded_toml = tomllib.load(config_file)
except FileNotFoundError:
print('config file not found')
shutdown(-1)
except tomllib.TOMLDecodeError:
print('Malformed config file')
shutdown(-1)
TOML['config'] = loaded_toml['config']
for k in TOML['options'].keys():
try: # Go through all valid keys
TOML['options'][k] = loaded_toml['options'][k]
except KeyError: # Key was not found in file
pass
else:
# Override config parameters with command-line values provided
if args['t'] is not None:
TOML['config']['twitter_account'] = args['t']
if args['i'] is not None:
TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] = args['i']
if args['m'] is not None:
TOML['config']['mastodon_user'] = args['m']
if args['v'] is True:
TOML['options']['upload_videos'] = args['v']
if args['r'] is True:
TOML['options']['post_reply_to'] = args['r']
if args['s'] is True:
TOML['options']['skip_retweets'] = args['s']
if args['l'] is True:
TOML['options']['remove_link_redirections'] = args['l']
if args['u'] is True:
TOML['options']['remove_trackers_from_urls'] = args['u']
if args['o'] is True:
TOML['options']['remove_original_tweet_ref'] = args['o']
if args['a'] is not None:
TOML['options']['tweet_max_age'] = float(args['a'])
if args['d'] is not None:
TOML['options']['tweet_delay'] = float(args['d'])
if args['c'] is not None:
TOML['options']['toot_cap'] = int(args['c'])
if args['q'] is True:
TOML['options']['update_profile'] = args['q']
# Verify that we have a minimum config to run
if 'twitter_account' not in TOML['config'].keys() or TOML['config']['twitter_account'] == "":
print('CRITICAL: Missing Twitter account')
exit(-1)
if 'mastodon_instance' not in TOML['config'].keys() or TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] == "":
print('CRITICAL: Missing Mastodon instance')
exit(-1)
if 'mastodon_user' not in TOML['config'].keys() or TOML['config']['mastodon_user'] == "":
print('CRITICAL: Missing Mastodon user')
exit(-1)
def update_profile(nitter_url, soup, sql, mast_password):
"""
Update profile on Mastodon
Check if avatar or banner pictures have changed since last run
If they have, download them and upload them on the Mastodon account profile
:param nitter_url: url of the Nitter instance that is being used
:param soup: BeautifulSoup object containing the page
:param sql: database connection
:param mast_password:
:return: mastodon object if we had to login to update, None otherwise
"""
# Check if TOML option to update profile is set
if TOML['options']['update_profile'] is False:
return None
else:
logging.debug("Checking twitter profile for changes")
db = sql.cursor()
# Extract avatar picture address
try:
new_avatar_url = soup.find('div', class_='profile-card-info').findChild('a').findChild('img').get('src')
except AttributeError:
new_avatar_url = None
# Extract banner picture address
try:
new_banner_url = soup.find('div', class_='profile-banner').findChild('a').findChild('img').get('src')
except AttributeError:
new_banner_url = None
# Get the original urls of the avatar and banner pictures on the account profile
db.execute("SELECT avatar_url, banner_url FROM profiles WHERE mastodon_instance=? AND mastodon_account=?", (TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'], TOML['config']['mastodon_user'],))
profile_in_db = db.fetchone()
changed = False
if profile_in_db is not None:
cur_avatar_url = profile_in_db[0]
cur_banner_url = profile_in_db[1]
# Check if urls have changed
if new_avatar_url != cur_avatar_url:
changed = True
logging.info('avatar image changed on twitter profile')
if new_banner_url != cur_banner_url:
changed = True
logging.info('banner image changed on twitter profile')
else:
# Mastodon user not found in database. Add new record
db.execute("INSERT INTO profiles (mastodon_instance, mastodon_account, avatar_url, banner_url) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)", (TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'], TOML['config']['mastodon_user'], None, None))
sql.commit()
changed = True
logging.debug("added new profile to database")
mastodon = None
# Update if necessary
if changed:
logging.info('updating profile on Mastodon')
new_avatar_img = None
new_avatar_mime = None
new_banner_img = None
new_banner_mime = None
# Download images
new_avatar = requests.get(nitter_url + new_avatar_url, timeout=HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT) if new_avatar_url is not None else None
if new_avatar is not None:
new_avatar_img = new_avatar.content if new_avatar.status_code == 200 else None
new_avatar_mime = new_avatar.headers['content-type'] if new_avatar.status_code == 200 else None
if new_avatar.status_code != 200:
logging.error("Could not download avatar image from " + nitter_url + new_avatar_url)
else:
logging.debug("Avatar image downloaded")
new_banner = requests.get(nitter_url + new_banner_url, timeout=HTTPS_REQ_TIMEOUT) if new_banner_url is not None else None
if new_banner is not None:
new_banner_img = new_banner.content if new_banner.status_code == 200 else None
new_banner_mime = new_banner.headers['content-type'] if new_banner.status_code == 200 else None
if new_banner.status_code != 200:
logging.error("Could not download banner image from " + nitter_url + new_banner_url)
else:
logging.debug("Banner image downloaded")
mastodon = login(mast_password)
# Update profile on Mastodon
try:
mastodon.account_update_credentials(avatar=new_avatar_img, avatar_mime_type=new_avatar_mime, header=new_banner_img, header_mime_type=new_banner_mime)
except Exception as e:
logging.error("Could not update profile")
logging.error(e)
else:
logging.info("Profile updated on Mastodon")
# Add urls to database
db.execute("UPDATE profiles SET avatar_url=?, banner_url=? WHERE mastodon_instance=? AND mastodon_account=?", (new_avatar_url, new_banner_url, TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'], TOML['config']['mastodon_user']))
sql.commit()
logging.debug("Profile updated on database")
else:
logging.info("No changes to profile found")
return mastodon
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
"""
# Check if we need to do anyting
if TOML['options']['remove_link_redirections'] is False:
return 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.head(url, headers=headers, allow_redirects=True, 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", "utm_brand"
"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 substitute_source(orig_url):
"""
param orig_url: url to check for substitutes
:return: url with replaced domains
"""
parsed_url = urlparse(orig_url)
domain = parsed_url.netloc
logging.debug("Checking domain %s for substitution ", domain)
# Handle twitter
twitter_subst = TOML["options"]["subst_twitter"]
# Do not substitiute if subdomain is present (e.g. i.twitter.com)
if (domain == 'twitter.com' or domain == 'www.twitter.com') and twitter_subst != []:
domain = twitter_subst[random.randint(0, len(twitter_subst) - 1)]
logging.debug("Replaced twitter.com by " + domain)
# Handle youtube
youtube_subst = TOML["options"]["subst_youtube"]
# Do not substitiute if subdomain is present (e.g. i.youtube.com)
if (domain == 'youtube.com' or domain == 'wwww.youtube.com') and youtube_subst != []:
domain = youtube_subst[random.randint(0, len(youtube_subst) - 1)]
logging.debug("Replaced youtube.com by " + domain)
# Handle reddit
reddit_subst = TOML["options"]["subst_reddit"]
# Do not substitiute if subdomain is present (e.g. i.reddit.com)
if (domain == 'reddit.com' or domain == 'www.reddit.com') and reddit_subst != []:
domain = reddit_subst[random.randint(0, len(reddit_subst) - 1)]
logging.debug("Replaced reddit.com by " + domain)
dest_url = urlunparse([
parsed_url.scheme,
domain,
parsed_url.path,
parsed_url.params,
parsed_url.query,
parsed_url.fragment
])
return dest_url
def clean_url(orig_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'
"""
# Check if we have to do anything
if TOML['options']['remove_trackers_from_urls'] is False:
return orig_url
# Parse a URL into 6 components:
# :///;?#
url_parsed = urlparse(orig_url)
# Reassemble URL after removal of trackers
dest_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 dest_url != orig_url:
logging.debug('Cleaned URL from: ' + orig_url + ' to: ' + dest_url)
return dest_url
def process_media_body(tt_iter):
"""
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
: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
url = deredir_url(tag.get('href'))
url = substitute_source(url)
url = clean_url(url)
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, 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 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)) + ' image(s) 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', TOML['config']['twitter_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 TOML['options']['upload_videos']:
import youtube_dl
video_path = f"{author_account}/status/{status_id}"
video_file = urljoin('https://twitter.com', video_path)
ydl_opts = {
'outtmpl': "output/" + TOML['config']['twitter_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.warning('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):
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 = TOML['options']['tweet_delay'] / 60.0
max_age_in_hours = TOML['options']['tweet_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(password):
"""
Login to Mastodon account and return mastodon object used to post content
:param password: Password associated to account. None if not provided
:return: mastodon object
"""
# Create Mastodon application if it does not exist yet
if not os.path.isfile(TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] + '.secret'):
try:
Mastodon.create_app(
'feedtoot',
api_base_url='https://' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'],
to_file=TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] + '.secret'
)
except MastodonError as me:
logging.fatal('failed to create app on ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'])
logging.fatal(me)
shutdown(-1)
mastodon = None
# Log in to Mastodon instance with password
if password is not None:
try:
mastodon = Mastodon(
client_id=TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] + '.secret',
api_base_url='https://' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance']
)
mastodon.log_in(
username=TOML['config']['mastodon_user'],
password=password,
to_file=TOML['config']['mastodon_user'] + ".secret"
)
logging.info('Logging in to ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'])
except MastodonError as me:
logging.fatal('Login to ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] + ' Failed\n')
logging.fatal(me)
shutdown(-1)
if os.path.isfile(TOML['config']['mastodon_user'] + '.secret'):
logging.warning('''You successfully logged in using a password and an access token
has been saved. The password can therefore be omitted from the
command-line in future invocations''')
else: # No password provided, login with token
# Using token in existing .secret file
if os.path.isfile(TOML['config']['mastodon_user'] + '.secret'):
try:
mastodon = Mastodon(
access_token=TOML['config']['mastodon_user'] + '.secret',
api_base_url='https://' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'])
except MastodonError as me:
logging.fatal('Login to ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] + ' Failed\n')
logging.fatal(me)
shutdown(-1)
else:
logging.fatal('No .secret file found. Password required to log in')
shutdown(-1)
return mastodon
def shutdown(exit_code):
"""
Cleanly stop execution with a message on execution duration
Remove log messages older that duration specified in config from log file
:param exit_code: return value to pass to shell when exiting
"""
logging.info('Run time : {t:2.1f} seconds.'.format(t=time.time() - START_TIME))
logging.info('_____________________________________________________________________________________')
# Close logger and log file
logging.shutdown()
# Remove older log messages
# Max allowed age of log message
max_delta = timedelta(TOML['options']['log_days'])
# Open log file
log_file_name = TOML['config']['twitter_account'].lower() + '.log'
new_log_file_name = TOML['config']['twitter_account'].lower() + '.log.new'
try:
log_file = open(log_file_name, 'r')
except FileNotFoundError:
# Nothing to do if there is no log file
exit(exit_code)
# Check each line
pos = log_file.tell()
while True:
line = log_file.readline()
# Check if we reached the end of the file
if not line:
exit(exit_code)
try:
# Extract date on log line
date = datetime.strptime(line[:10], '%Y-%m-%d')
except ValueError:
# date was not found on this line, try next one
continue
# Time difference between log message and now
log_delta = datetime.now() - date
# Only keep the number of days of the difference
log_delta = timedelta(days=log_delta.days)
if log_delta < max_delta:
logging.debug("Truncating log file")
# Reset file pointer to position before reading last line
log_file.seek(pos)
remainder = log_file.read()
output_file = open(new_log_file_name, 'w')
output_file.write(remainder)
output_file.close()
# replace log file by new one
shutil.move(new_log_file_name, log_file_name)
break # Exit while loop
# Update read pointer position
pos = log_file.tell()
exit(exit_code)
def main(argv):
# Start stopwatch
global START_TIME
START_TIME = time.time()
# Build parser for command line arguments
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='toot tweets.')
parser.add_argument('-f', metavar='<.toml config file>', action='store')
parser.add_argument('-t', metavar='', action='store')
parser.add_argument('-i', metavar='', action='store')
parser.add_argument('-m', metavar='', action='store')
parser.add_argument('-p', metavar='', action='store')
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('-o', action='store_true', help='Do not add reference to Original tweet')
parser.add_argument('-q', action='store_true', help='update profile if changed')
parser.add_argument('-a', metavar='', action='store', type=float)
parser.add_argument('-d', metavar='', action='store', type=float)
parser.add_argument('-c', metavar='', action='store', type=int)
# Parse command line
args = vars(parser.parse_args())
build_config(args)
mast_password = args['p']
# Setup logging to file
logging.basicConfig(
filename=TOML['config']['twitter_account'].lower() + '.log',
format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s',
datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S',
)
# Set default level of logging
log_level = logging.WARNING
# log level as an uppercase string from config
ll_str = TOML['options']['log_level'].upper()
if ll_str == "DEBUG":
log_level = logging.DEBUG
elif ll_str == "INFO":
log_level = logging.INFO
elif ll_str == "WARNING":
log_level = logging.WARNING
elif ll_str == "ERROR":
log_level = logging.ERROR
elif ll_str == "CRITICAL":
log_level == logging.CRITICAL
elif ll_str == "OFF":
# Disable all logging
logging.disable(logging.CRITICAL)
else:
logging.error('Invalid log_level %s in config file. Using WARNING.', str(TOML['options']['log_level']))
# Set desired level of logging
logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(log_level)
logging.info('Running with the following configuration:')
logging.info(' Config File : ' + str(args['f']))
logging.info(' twitter_account : ' + TOML['config']['twitter_account'])
logging.info(' mastodon_instance : ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'])
logging.info(' mastodon_user : ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_user'])
logging.info(' upload_videos : ' + str(TOML['options']['upload_videos']))
logging.info(' post_reply_to : ' + str(TOML['options']['post_reply_to']))
logging.info(' skip_retweets : ' + str(TOML['options']['skip_retweets']))
logging.info(' remove_link_redirections : ' + str(TOML['options']['remove_link_redirections']))
logging.info(' remove_trackers_from_urls: ' + str(TOML['options']['remove_trackers_from_urls']))
logging.info(' footer : ' + TOML['options']['footer'])
logging.info(' tweet_time_format : ' + TOML['options']['tweet_time_format'])
logging.info(' tweet_timezone : ' + TOML['options']['tweet_timezone'])
logging.info(' remove_original_tweet_ref: ' + str(TOML['options']['remove_original_tweet_ref']))
logging.info(' update_profile : ' + str(TOML['options']['update_profile']))
logging.info(' tweet_max_age : ' + str(TOML['options']['tweet_max_age']))
logging.info(' tweet_delay : ' + str(TOML['options']['tweet_delay']))
logging.info(' toot_cap : ' + str(TOML['options']['toot_cap']))
logging.info(' subst_twitter : ' + str(TOML['options']['subst_twitter']))
logging.info(' subst_youtube : ' + str(TOML['options']['subst_youtube']))
logging.info(' subst_reddit : ' + str(TOML['options']['subst_reddit']))
logging.info(' log_level : ' + str(TOML['options']['log_level']))
logging.info(' log_days : ' + str(TOML['options']['log_days']))
# 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)''')
db.execute('''CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS profiles (mastodon_instance TEXT, mastodon_account TEXT, avatar_url TEXT, banner_url TEXT)''')
db.execute('''CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXIsTS profile_index ON profiles (mastodon_instance, mastodon_account)''')
# 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 + '/' + TOML['config']['twitter_account']
# Use different page if we need to handle replies
if TOML['options']['post_reply_to']:
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)
shutdown(-1)
except requests.exceptions.Timeout:
logging.fatal(nitter_url + ' took too long to respond')
shutdown(-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')
shutdown(-1)
logging.debug('Nitter page downloaded successfully from ' + url)
# DEBUG: Save page to file
# of = open(TOML['config']['twitter_account'] + '.html', 'w')
# of.write(twit_account_page.text)
# of.close()
# Make soup
soup = BeautifulSoup(twit_account_page.text, 'html.parser')
# Extract twitter timeline
timeline = soup.find_all(has_class_timeline_item_but_not_thread)
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
try:
tweet_id = status.find('a', class_='tweet-link').get('href').strip('#m')
status_id = tweet_id.split('/')[3]
except Exception as e:
logging.critical('Malformed timeline downloaded from nitter instance')
logging.debug(e)
shutdown(-1)
logging.debug('processing tweet %s', tweet_id)
# Extract time stamp
time_string = status.find('span', class_='tweet-date').a.get('title')
try:
timestamp = datetime.strptime(time_string, '%d/%m/%Y, %H:%M:%S')
except:
# Dec 21, 2021 · 12:00 PM UTC
timestamp = datetime.strptime(time_string, '%b %d, %Y · %I:%M %p %Z')
# Check if time is within acceptable range
if not is_time_valid(timestamp.timestamp()):
out_date_cnt += 1
logging.debug("Tweet outside valid time range, skipping")
continue
# Check if retweets must be skipped
if TOML['options']['skip_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=?",
(TOML['config']['twitter_account'], TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'], TOML['config']['mastodon_user'], 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)
# Process quote: append link to tweet_text
quote_div = status.find('a', class_='quote-link')
if quote_div is not None:
tweet_text += substitute_source('\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,
status_id, author_account)
photos.extend(pics)
if vid_in_tweet:
tweet_text += '\n\n[Video embedded in original tweet]'
# Add custom footer from config file
if TOML['options']['footer'] != '':
tweet_text += '\n\n' + TOML['options']['footer']
# Add footer with link to original tweet
if TOML['options']['remove_original_tweet_ref'] is False:
if TOML['options']['footer'] != '':
tweet_text += '\nOriginal tweet: ' + substitute_source(full_status_url)
else:
tweet_text += '\n\nOriginal tweet: ' + substitute_source(full_status_url)
# Add timestamp to the "Original Tweet" line
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
timezone_display = datetime.now().astimezone().tzinfo
logging.debug("Timestamp UTC: " + str(timestamp))
logging.debug("Timezone to use: " + str(timezone_display))
timestamp_display = pytz.utc.localize(timestamp).astimezone(timezone_display)
logging.debug("Timestamp converted " + str(timestamp_display))
tweet_text += ' ' + datetime.strftime(timestamp_display, TOML['options']['tweet_time_format'])
# 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') / TOML['config']['twitter_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.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')
# Initialise Mastodon object
mastodon = None
# Update profile if it has changed
mastodon = update_profile(nitter_url, soup, sql, mast_password)
# Login to account on maston instance
if len(tweets) != 0 and mastodon is None:
mastodon = login(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 TOML['options']['toot_cap'] != 0 and posted_cnt >= TOML['options']['toot_cap']:
logging.info('%d toots not posted due to configured cap', len(tweets) - TOML['options']['toot_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:
if len(media_ids) == 0:
toot = mastodon.status_post(tweet['tweet_text'])
else:
toot = mastodon.status_post(tweet['tweet_text'], media_ids=media_ids)
except MastodonAPIError:
# Assuming this is an:
# ERROR ('Mastodon API returned error', 422, 'Unprocessable Entity', 'Cannot attach files that have not finished processing. Try again in a moment!')
logging.warning('Mastodon API Error 422: Cannot attach files that have not finished processing. Waiting 60 seconds and retrying.')
# Wait 60 seconds
time.sleep(60)
# retry posting
try:
toot = mastodon.status_post(tweet['tweet_text'], media_ids=media_ids)
except MastodonError as me:
logging.error('posting ' + tweet['tweet_text'] + ' to ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] + ' Failed')
logging.error(me)
else:
logging.warning("Retry successful")
except MastodonError as me:
logging.error('posting ' + tweet['tweet_text'] + ' to ' + TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'] + ' Failed')
logging.error(me)
else:
posted_cnt += 1
logging.debug('Tweet %s posted on %s', tweet['tweet_id'], TOML['config']['mastodon_user'])
# Insert toot id into database
if 'id' in toot:
db.execute("INSERT INTO toots VALUES ( ? , ? , ? , ? , ? )",
(TOML['config']['twitter_account'], TOML['config']['mastodon_instance'], TOML['config']['mastodon_user'], tweet['tweet_id'], toot['id']))
sql.commit()
logging.info(str(posted_cnt) + ' tweets posted to Mastodon')
# Cleanup downloaded video files
try:
shutil.rmtree('./output/' + TOML['config']['twitter_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=?', (TOML['config']['twitter_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''', (TOML['config']['twitter_account'], excess_count))
sql.commit()
logging.info('Deleted ' + str(excess_count) + ' old records from database.')
shutdown(0)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main(sys.argv)