twoot/CHANGELOG.md

XX NOV 2022 VERSION 2.4 Added command-line option (-u) to remove tracking parameters from URLs included in tweets. A tracking URL is a normal URL with parameters attached to it. These parameters are used by marketing companies to identify the source of a click and the effectiveness of a communication campaign.

15 NOV 2022 VERSION 2.3 Added command-line option (-s) to skip retweets. With this option, retweets will be ignored and not posted on Mastodon.

12 NOV 2022 VERSION 2.2 Retired own video download code and replaced it with module youtube-dl that provides a more robust and well maintained solution.

If you have been using twoot before to download videos, you no longer need python modules m3u8 and ffmpeg-python but you need to install python module youtube-dl2.

08 OCT 2022 VERSION 2.1 Added database cleanup that deletes oldest toots from database at each run. Keep MAX_REC_COUNT (50 by default) rows in db for each twitter feed.t

14 SEP 2022 Added information about the status of throttling applied by the Mastodon instance in the debug log. Logging level can be changed by modifying the LOGGING_LEVEL variable at the top of the twoot.py file.

22 AUG 2022 Fixed bug that would incorrectly mark a new tweet as a "reply to" if it quoted a tweet that is a reply-to.

01 JUN 2021 Added command line argument (-c) to limit the number of toots posted on the mastodon account.

19 DEC 2020 VERSION 2.0 Twitter's no-javascript version has been retired. Twoot has been rewritten to get content from nitter.net or one of its mirrors which is a javascript-free mirror of twitter. As a bonus (or a curse?) twoot now also supports animated GIFs.

05 APR 2020 VERSION 1.0. Twoot can now optionally download videos from Twitter and upload them on Mastodon.

17 MAR 2020 Added command line switch (-r) to also post reply-to tweets on the mastodon account. They will not be included by default anymore.

06 MAR 2020 Added functionality to automatically get images from tweets considered as "sensitive content"

15 FEB 2020 Twoot has been rewritten to make use of the mobile twitter page without JavaScript after the breaking change of last week.