Sync Twitter's timeline via RSS Bridge to Facebook's timeline without Facebook API by posting to mbasic.facebook.com.
This project is developed and tested in Ubuntu 20.04 so far.
Install these packages first:
- firefox-esr
- firefox-esr-geckodriver
In Ubuntu you may need to install via https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/ppa this PPA repository.
For remote server (e.g. VPS), you may install tightvncserver and icewm then setup a VNC server afterwards:
tightvncserver -depth 24 -geometry 1366x768
Once VNC is set, try to create a SSH tunnel (:1 in X environment is usually :5901 for TCP) to allow your VNC viewer to access the desktop environment securely:
ssh -L5901:127.0.0.1:5901 server.example.com
Once you have accessed the desktop environment, open the browser with -profile assignment within the terminal:
firefox-esr -profile ~/.mozilla/firefox-esr/selenium
Then login Facebook and close the browser. Now you can run pkill Xtightvnc to terminate the VNC server.
Please note that Facebook login is somehow strange, therefore sometimes you need to close the browser and open it again to make sure you're really login-ed.
Install Python 3 first (I used pyenv to run it), then use pip to install dependencies:
pip install -r requirements.txt
Setup Twitter's key & secret in ~/.config/twitter2facebook/config.ini:
[default]
sentry_sdk_url = https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@sentry.io/yyyyyyy
twitter_rssbridge_jsonfeed_url = https://x
I use Sentry to log error (to notify me when Facebook logout my account), and you can keep empty if you don't want to use Sentry.
Use sqlite3 to create table schema in ~/.config/twitter2facebook/entry.sqlite3:
CREATE TABLE entry (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, twitter_id TEXT UNIQUE, created_at INTEGER);
When using pyenv, you might need to specify pyenv to run this script:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ~/.pyenv/shims/python3 /path/twitter2facebook/twitter2facebook.py
See LICENSE.