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nanos / FediFetcher

FediFetcher is a tool for Mastodon that automatically fetches missing replies and posts from other fediverse instances, and adds them to your own Mastodon instance.
https://blog.thms.uk/fedifetcher?utm_source=github
MIT License
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Unclear how to disable backfill #37

Closed AndrewKvalheim closed 1 year ago

AndrewKvalheim commented 1 year ago

The --backfill options are confusing to disable. The documentation suggests setting them to "0", but actually that enables them:

The bool() function is not recommended as a type converter. All it does is convert empty strings to False and non-empty strings to True. This is usually not what is desired.

nanos commented 1 year ago

Thanks @AndrewKvalheim

This is now fixed in https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v4.1.10

joellimberg commented 1 year ago

Sorry for the horrible format of this report, but I think the above fix actually broke something else; I'm seeing this:

(NameError: name 'timeline_toots' is not defined)

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nanos commented 1 year ago

🤦 you are right of course. Fixed in v4.1.11