/Arrowverse-Mastodon-Bot

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Twitter Bot

The provided code initializes a Twitter bot that listens to tweets from specified accounts and toots (posts) their content on the Mastodon instance botsin.space with the hashtags #Arrowverse and #TheCW.

Code Overview

  1. Import required modules and initialize the Mastodon API and Twitter API clients.

    • Import mastodon-api, dotenv, and twit modules.
    • Load environment variables using dotenv.
    • Create Mastodon and Twitter API clients using the loaded environment variables and a configuration file.

  2. Set up a Twitter stream to follow specified accounts.

    • Create a stream that filters tweets from specific accounts (based on user IDs).
    • Set up an event listener for the 'tweet' event, calling the tweetEvent function when triggered.

  3. Define the tweetEvent function.

    • Check if the tweet is from one of the specified accounts.
    • If the tweet is a retweet, log 'Retweet'.
    • If the tweet is not truncated, log 'Not Truncated' and build the content string with the tweet's text, then call MastaPost.
    • If the tweet is truncated, log 'Truncated' and build the content string with the tweet's full text from the extended_eventMsg object, then call MastaPost.

  4. Define the MastaPost function.

    • Create an object with the status property set to the tweet content.
    • Log the tweet content.
    • Post the tweet content to Mastodon using the post method.
    • If there's an error, log the error; otherwise, log the tweet content, the returned data, and 'Toot!'.