From 036d6a3358fab6cd840bc61b88bc04f584df6f96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Homer S <homer77@noreply.ismus.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 23:42:40 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Added conditional to prevent exceeding of 500 characters
 limit of API

---
 mastobot.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mastobot.py b/mastobot.py
index c2ae3d4..e16d58c 100644
--- a/mastobot.py
+++ b/mastobot.py
@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ for account in transitions:
         mastodon_text += "\n\nPosted " + parse(str(status.created_at)).strftime("%d. %B %Y - %H:%M on Twitter")
         mastodon_text += "\nOrigin: https://twitter.com/" + account['twitter_handle'] + "/status/" + tweet_origin
 
+		# Make sure that 500 char limit of Mastodon-API doesn't break the script                                                                               
+        if len(mastodon_text) > 500:
+        	mastodon_text = mastodon_text[:489]
+        
+        
         # Output text to stdout respect. post it to Mastodon.
         print(mastodon_text)