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https://github.com/slaninas/tostr

Bot that forwards tweets to nostr
https://github.com/slaninas/tostr

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/ˈtəʊstə(r)/



**T**witter to n**ostr**.

Bot that forwards tweets to [nostr](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr).



Reply to its message with `!help` and it will show you all available commands.



Powered by [nostr-bot](https://github.com/slaninas/nostr-bot.git).

## How to run using Docker

```

git clone https://github.com/slaninas/tostr/ && cd tostr

# Now add secret (hex private key) to config file, tune config if you wish to

./build_and_run.sh --clearnet|tor

```

Now the bot should be running and waiting for mentions. Just reply to its message to interact, see [Commands](#Commands).

It relays only new tweets that were posted after you launched it.



## Tor

In case `--tor` is used connections to both relay and Twitter *should* be going through tor. But if you need full anonymity please **check yourself there are no leaks**.



## Known limitations/issues

- Heavy CPU load when starting the bot that already follows lot of users

- in `update_user` function, `since` value may not correspond to the previous `until` value (seems it breaks shortly after a new tweet is found), this may lead to tweets being forwarded twice or not at all

- twint is a Twitter scraper that currently works but who knows for how long

- Doesn't work for retweets by users you follow (twint has `--retweets` option but it's extremely slow 1.5 vs 30 s for some accounts)

- ~~There are multiple processes spawned for each account check and relaying, twint also takes some time to process so it's slow,

I tested it with 40 accounts and it took almost a minute to check if there were any new tweets for them.~~ (under 4.5 s now, only twint process is spawned now)

- ~~But it shows replies by people you follow (is that good or bad?)~~

- ~~Tweets containing ' or " are not relayed~~



## TODOs

- [ ] Check if tweets containing ' and " are forwarded

- [ ] After reconnection to relay, request events that were send when disconnected

- [ ] Check the relay's response after sending subscription request

- [ ] Better handling of handled event ids (add timestamp, remove old ones)

- [ ] Don't send `set_metadata` again after reconnect

- [ ] Cleanup

- [ ] Set timeout for connection

- [x] ~~Error handling~~

- [x] ~~If tweets fetch fails include the time inverval from failed attempt in the next check~~

- [x] Proxy support

- [x] ~~Use existing websocket crate instead of spawning websocat process~~

- [x] ~~Find solution better than spawning nostril process~~

- [x] ~~Parallelization, async?~~

- [x] ~~Follow Twitters redirects and send original url to nostr~~

- [x] ~~Add proper logging~~

- [x] ~~Check timestamps that are used for twint's --since option, if the new tweets check takes too long some tweets may get ignored during the next check~~

- [x] ~~Read "hello" message from a config instead of using hardcoded one and post it when bot starts~~