This is a "manual crossposter" that takes a given tweet's URL, fetches the necessary data and posts it to your Mastodon, Bluesky and Cohost account. This is useful to me because all the Twitter->Mastodon crossposters are either down, on the way out and/or don't properly support all of Twitter's features so I wanted a way to easily cherry-pick what tweets I wanted to cross-posts without too much overhead.
With the imminent demise of Twitter's API, this uses the API of FixTweet since I only need read access to a given tweet to work.
- Text tweets
- Pictures
- Videos (Mastodon only since neither Cohost nor Bluesky support them yet)
- Twitter Polls
- Twitter Circles
- Service-specific features like visibility settings/Content Warning on Mastodon
- Node.js v18
- A server to run the process/expose it to the web
- Create a
.envfile by following the example in.env.example - Run the following
npm install
npm run build
npm run serve
You will need Docker Compose
npm run docker
Make a network request looking like this
curl "http://localhost:8080/u?secret=1234&url=https://twitter.com/foobar/status/123&services=mastodon,bsky,cohost"
I personally use an iOS/macOS shortcut that takes a tweet's URL, here it is: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/840875fdecaf497e8339260715771fda