Mastodon <-> Twitter cross-poster.
Requirements: Python 3.4 minimum, with two packages, python-twitter version 3.2 upwards and Mastodon.py version 1.0.2 upwards:
# Python 3
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
For basic usage, just run the MastodonToTwitter.py script and follow the on-screen prompts. To change the polling interval or the instance of Mastodon the script talks to, edit the settings in the script.
The script stores your credentials in a bunch of files ending on .secret. The contents of these files let people access your twitter and Mastodon accounts, so do not share them around.
To run this as a docker app, first run the app once to generate the mtt files, then build the docker container:
docker build -t "mastodontotwitter" .
Now you can run it:
docker run -d --name "mastodontotwitter" mastodontotwitter
The MastodonToTwitter.service file is a systemd service.
You can edit it to change the install path, copy it to /etc/systemd/system/,
and then use systemctl start|stop|restart|status MastodonToTwitter and
journalctl -u MastodonToTwitter.service to run this as a simple service
You can run this on a free heroku dynamo
Add heroku as a remote repository with heroku git:remote -a your-app-here
Create a runtime.txt file which contains:
python-3.6.1
Create a Procfile which contains
worker: python3 MastodonToTwitter.py
Commit and push your changes to heroku master.
Open a bash shell on heroku with heroku run bash and follow the basic usage instructions to generate your tokens.
Exit bash and scale your heroku instance heroku ps:scale worker=1 to get things going.