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I started twoot when tootbot stopped working. Tootbot relies on rss feeds from https://twitrss.me that broke when Twitter refreshed their web UI in July 2019.
Instead twoot is self contained and handles all the processing.
Features
- Fetch timeline of given users from twitter.com
- Scrape html and formats tweets for post on mastodon
- Emojis supported
- Upload images from tweet to Mastodon (videos not supported)
- Specify maximum age of tweet to be considered
- Specify minimum delay before considering a tweet for upload
- Remember tweets already tooted to prevent double posting
usage
twoot.py [-h] -t <twitter account> -i <mastodon instance> -m <mastodon
account> -p <mastodon password> [-a <max age in days>]
[-d <min delay in mins>]
arguments
Assuming that the Twitter handle is @SuperDuperBot and the Mastodon account is @superduperbot@botsin.space
| Switch | Description | Example | Req |
|---|---|---|---|
| -t | twitter account name without '@' | SuperDuperBot |
Yes |
| -i | Mastodon instance domain name | botsin.space |
Yes |
| -m | Mastodon username | superduperbot |
Yes |
| -p | Mastodon password | my_Sup3r-S4f3*pw |
Yes |
| -a | Max. age of tweet to post (in days) | 1 |
No |
| -d | Min. delay before posting new tweet (in minutes) | 15 |
No |
Default max age is 1 day. Decimal values are OK.
Default min delay is 0 minutes.
installation
Make sure python3 is installed.
Twoot depends on sqlite3, beautifulsoup4 and mastodon python module: sudo pip install beautifulsoup4 Mastodon.py
In your user folder, execute git clone https://gitlab.com/jeancf/twoot.git
to clone repo with twoot.py script.
Add command line to crontab. For example, to run every 15 minutes starting at minute 1 of every hour and process the tweets posted in the last 5 days but at least 15 minutes ago:
1-59/15 * * * * /path/to/twoot.py -t SuperDuperBot -i botsin.space -m superduperbot -p my_Sup3r-S4f3*pw -a 5 -d 15