README

About mastobot

This simple pyton3 script's purpose is just to copy a number of twitter accounts' statuses to corresponding Mastodon accounts.

Prerequisites

To use #mastobot you need to install tweepy, Mastodon.py and wget. To do so you could e.g. just use pip3 by entering commandline: sudo pip3 install tweepy and vice versa. Also, you have of course to register the goal accounts on Mastodon and to adjust both the mastodon.py file's setting_path pointing to the absolute path to the settings.json file and the setting.json file itself regarding to your needs. Above this you need a twitter developer account to receive consumer and access keypairs. For a HowTo please take a look at the tweepy documentation.

Usage

After having filled in every information into the settings.json file you could use e.g. crontab -e on unixoid systems from shell and add a line like */15 * * * * python3 /home/username/mastobot/mastobot.py >> /home/username/mastobot.log which lets the script be triggered every 15 minutes. By default the script will be limited to 25 tweets per account for this period which should definitely be enough for a human account I think.