A script to manage the forwarding of tweets from Twitter accounts to a Mastodon one.
On debian/ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
virtualenv ve
source ve/bin/activate
# if you run with an old version of python 2.7 (Ubuntu 14.04 for example)
# you'll need to run those, otherwise requests will break because it won't
# be able to correctly verify the host of the https issuer
# if you use python 3 you can ignore that
pip install pyopenssl ndg-httpsclient pyasn1
pip install -r requirements.txt
Then you need twitter API credentials. Following this tutorial https://python-twitter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html then create a conf.yaml file of this format:
consumer_key: "..."
consumer_secret: "..."
access_token_key: "..."
access_token_secret: "..."
The credentials for Mastodon are automatically generated at the first startup.
Compatible with both.
There is a known bug if you run python2 coming for the STL lib mimetypes:
JPEG images will be uploaded with the .jpe extension, this will break "going
on the exact url of the image" (will cause a download instead of a display).
This bug is fixed in python 3 so I would recommend running t2m with it.
Forward for one account:
./t2m one twitter_account -m mastodon_account
This will forward all not already forwarded tweet (this can be up to 200) while waiting 30 seconds between each toot. This will also remember the mastodon account (so you don't need to specify it again).
Tweets that starts with a "@" won't be forwarded. Retweets won't be forwarded unless the -r option is specified.
You might want a finer control on your action, so you can do:
./t2m one twitter_account -m mastodon_account -n 10
To forward only 10 tweet (be careful: if you relaunch the command this will forward 10 other tweets that weren't already forwarded).
You can also mark the whole available tweet as "already seen" without forwarding them so they'll never be forwarded in the future by using this command:
./t2m one twitter_account -m mastodon_account -o
If you want to test your commands without forwarding you can simply uses the -d (or --debug) option:
./t2m one twitter_account -m mastodon_account -d
./t2m one twitter_account -m mastodon_account -n 10 -d
In general, when I had a new account I look at its timeline, read how many tweets make sens then do:
./t2m one twitter_account -m mastodon_account -n <number of tweets>
./t2m one twitter_account -m mastodon_account -o
To forward tweets for all accounts, simply run:
./t2m all
This is a good command to put inside a crontab.
To check all accounts that will be forwarded, do a:
./t2m list
You can also add an account directly without using the one command using:
./t2m add twitter_account mastodon_account
## Retweets
When enabled, retweets are forwarded using the retweet.tmpl file as a template, feel free to edit it to suit your needs. The following tokens will be replaced in the template:
%(text)s: the retweeted text%(user)s: the original tweet author username%(id)s: the original tweet id
To create a link to the original tweet, use https://twitter.com/%(user)s/status/%(id)s. To link to the original author profile, use https://twitter.com/%(user)s.
Copyright (C) 2017 Laurent Peuch and [Contributors](https://github.com/Psycojoker/t2m/graphs/contributors)
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
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