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).