Replace screenscraping by calls to Twitter API

cquest / tootbot

python bot to clone tweets to a mastodon account

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Replace screenscraping by calls to Twitter API #1

Closed OlivierNicole closed 5 years ago

OlivierNicole commented 6 years ago

I noticed that https://twitrss.me takes a while to take new tweets into account (thank you Twitter for your no-RSS policy). That's why I replaced the RSS parts in your bot with calls to the Twitter API.

I can't say it's good code, but for now it works, so maybe it could be useful to others. The disadvantage is that you need a Twitter account in order to get access tokens.

FedericoCeratto commented 5 years ago

Please do not remove the RSS support. Not everybody wants to use a twitter account.

OlivierNicole commented 5 years ago

I can completely understand. Anyway, I realized that other reposting software like t2m was already designed for this task.