https://github.com/bclindner/mastodril

Bot to mirror Twitter posts on a Mastodon account.
https://github.com/bclindner/mastodril

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Bot to mirror Twitter posts on a Mastodon account.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bclindner/mastodril
• Owner: bclindner
• Created: 2018-11-22T05:38:04.000Z (about 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-12-23T13:53:34.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-07T07:41:30.213Z (3 months ago)
• Language: Go
• Size: 13.7 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# mastodril

A hacky Go script that syncs a Twitter user's Tweets to a Mastodon account.

This is primarily used to mirror [@dril](https://twitter.com/dril)'s tweets 

to a [Mastodon account](https://botsin.space/@mastodril), hence the name.

## Configuration

A valid config file is stored in `mastodril.json` in the same folder as the

executable, and looks like this. You'll need app credentials for Twitter and

Mastodon.

```json

{

	"handle": "",

	"twitter": {

		"consumerKey": "",

		"consumerSecret": "",

		"accessToken": "",

		"accessSecret": ""

	},

	"mastodon": {

		"server": "",

		"clientID": "",

		"clientSecret": "",

		"accessToken": ""

	}

}

```

## Author's Note

The bot does not run as a daemon - it's a oneshot process that syncs the

last 5 tweets, then takes the last tweet in that list and stores its ID

to a file. It then pulls up that file on the next run and tries to find at

most 5 tweets starting from that saved point. It's intended to be run as

a cron/systemd.timer job every 5-30 minutes or so.

As such, if the user you're trying to mirror posts a lot, this may not be 

a feasible script to use. Theoretically Twitter's streaming API would work

well there, but that comes with its own set of pitfalls (ratelimiting,

filtering problems, etc). This is a simple enough solution for syncing 

slower timelines.