TwitToMast

Bypass paywalled APIs to crosspost from Twitter to Mastodon

Installation:

1. Clone the repo and set up the script's dependencies

git clone https://github.com/pogmom/TwitToMast.git
cd TwitToMast
npm install

2. Install Chrome Webdriver and set up your PATH as outlined in Step 3 here

3. Retrieve your Mastodon API Key

   • From your Mastodon Account, go to Preferences > Development > New Application
   • Enter any name you'd like, press "submit"
   • You should see the application with the name you just gave it in your applications list
   • Click on its name, and copy the string of text to the right of where it says "Your Access Token"

4. Update config.txt with your Mastodon account settings

   • Replace "API_KEY" on line 1 with the Access Token you retrieved in the previous step
   • Replace "API_URL" on line 2 with your Mastodon instance's API URL
     • This will look like "https://mastodon.social/api/v1/", replacing "mastodon.social" with the domain you registered your account through
   • Line 3 determines whether or not quote tweets will be sent to Mastodon
     • true: Quote tweets will be sent to Mastodon
     • false: Quote tweets will not be sent to Mastodon
   • Line 4 determines whether or not tweets that are part of threads will be sent to Mastodon
     • true: Thread tweets will be sent to Mastodon
     • false: Thread tweets will not be sent to Mastodon
   • While they can be independently configured, it's recommended that Lines 3 and 4 are set to the same value

Usage

node ./TwitToMast.js [username] [tweet count] [debug level]

• username: the twitter handle of the user whose account will be scraped
• tweet count: the number of enabled tweets that will be scraped from the targeted account
• debug level: Level of output that will be printed on screen.
  • 1: The program will print what tasks it is working on and errors, but nothing more.
  • 2: The program will print what tasks it is working on and errors, as well as various other information necessary for troubleshooting.
  • Omit this argument for the program to run silently (no output on screen)

Other important details

• This program does not run on a loop on its own. If you need it to run automatically, you'll need to find a way to schedule the script to be executed periodically.