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
-
Import required modules and initialize the Mastodon API and Twitter API clients.
- Import
mastodon-api
,dotenv
, andtwit
modules. - Load environment variables using
dotenv
. - Create Mastodon and Twitter API clients using the loaded environment variables and a configuration file.
- Import
-
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.
-
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 callMastaPost
.
-
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!'.