From my ex

💕 Sending all the love from my ex to my new happy and promiscuous social media life. 💕

In other words, this app gets the new posts (except replies and reposts) from my ex-social media and posts to the new ones.

If you just wanna post stuff, take a look in cuducos/not-my-ex.

Getting started

Requirements

• Python 3.9 or newer
• Poetry

Configuration

These environment variables are required:

Name	Description	Example
FROM_MY_EX_USERNAME	User handle used in the ex, the blue bird one	"cuducos" (not "@cuducos")
FROM_MY_EX_NITTER_INSTANCE	A Nitter instance with RSS enabled	"https://nitter.d420.de"
FROM_MY_EX_DATABASE_URL	A URI to a SQL database, with credentials if needed	"db.sqlite3" or "postgres://user:pass@server/db"

Optional

To repost in Bluesky

Name	Description	Example	Default value
FROM_MY_EX_BSKY_AGENT	Bluesky instance	"https://bsky.social"	"https://bsky.social"
FROM_MY_EX_BSKY_EMAIL	Email used in Bluesky	"cuducos@mailinator.com"	None
FROM_MY_EX_BSKY_PASSWORD	Password used in Bluesky	As created in App Passwords	None

Not setting FROM_MY_EX_BSKY_EMAIL or FROM_MY_EX_BSKY_PASSWORD disables Bluesky reposting.

To repost in Mastodon

Name	Description	Example	Default value
FROM_MY_EX_MASTODON_INSTANCE	Mastodon instance	"https://tech.lgbt"	"https://mastodon.social"
FROM_MY_EX_MASTODON_TOKEN	Mastodon access token	Go to your Settings, Development and then create an app to get the access token. Select the write:statuses and write:media scopes.	None

Not setting FROM_MY_EX_MASTODON_TOKEN disables Mastodon reposting.

Usage

$ poetry install
$ poetry run python -m from_my_ex --create-db
$ poetry run python -m from_my_ex

At this time, this will post the oldest content from the RSS of the account.

Optionally, use --limit NUMBER to repost more content at once, e.g. python -m from_my_ex --limit 42

Scheduling

Run this command every 10 min (quicker than that, it will just hit the RSS cache).

Web

There's a web server that runs the repost routine for each HTTP request it receives:

$ poetry run uvicorn from_my_ex.web:app

--port $PORT is optional.

Contributing

The tests include Black, Ruff and isort:

$ poetry run pytest