From 01174b1cf0cad00d05c8a8d758692f6ac979fd4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cquest Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 23:03:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] first README --- README.md | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd061d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# TootBot + +A small python script to replicate tweets on a mastodon account. + +The script only need mastodon login/pass to post toots. + +It gets the tweets from RSS available at http://twitrss.me, then does some cleanup on the content: +- twitter tracking links (t.co) are dereferenced +- twitter hosted pictures are retrieved and uploaded to mastodon + +A sqlite database is used to keep track of tweets than have been tooted. + + +This script is in use for a few accounts: +- cq94 -> https://amicale.net/@cquest +- Etalab -> https://mastodon.etalab.gouv.fr/@etalab +- datagouvfr -> https://mastodon.etalab.gouv.fr/@datagouvfr +- osm_fr -> https://fr.osm.social/@osm_fr +- sotmfr -> https://fr.osm.social/@sotmfr + +The script is simply called by a cron job and can run on any server (does not have to be on the mastodon instance server).