mastodon login only when new tweets to toot

tootbot.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import re
 import sqlite3
 from datetime import datetime, date, time, timedelta
 
-if len(sys.argv) < 3:
+if len(sys.argv) < 4:
     print("Usage: python3 tootbot.py twitter_account mastodon_login mastodon_passwd mastodon_instance")
     sys.exit(1)
 
@@ -17,17 +17,34 @@ sql = sqlite3.connect('tootbot.db')
 db = sql.cursor()
 db.execute('''CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tweets (tweet text, toot text, twitter text, mastodon text, instance text)''')
 
-if len(sys.argv)>3:
+if len(sys.argv)>4:
     instance = sys.argv[4]
 else:
     instance = 'amicale.net'
 
+if len(sys.argv)>5:
+    days = int(sys.argv[5])
+else:
+    days = 1
+
 twitter = sys.argv[1]
 mastodon = sys.argv[2]
 passwd = sys.argv[3]
 
-# Create application if it does not exist
+mastodon_api = None
-if not os.path.isfile(instance+'.secret'):
+
+d = feedparser.parse('http://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/?user='+twitter)
+
+for t in reversed(d.entries):
+    # check if this tweet has been processed
+    db.execute('SELECT * FROM tweets WHERE tweet = ? AND twitter = ?  and mastodon = ? and instance = ?',(t.id, twitter, mastodon, instance))
+    last = db.fetchone()
+
+    # process only unprocessed tweets less than 1 day old
+    if last is None and (datetime.now()-datetime(t.published_parsed.tm_year, t.published_parsed.tm_mon, t.published_parsed.tm_mday, t.published_parsed.tm_hour, t.published_parsed.tm_min, t.published_parsed.tm_sec) < timedelta(days=days)):
+        if mastodon_api is None:
+            # Create application if it does not exist
+            if not os.path.isfile(instance+'.secret'):
                 if Mastodon.create_app(
                     'tootbot',
                     api_base_url='https://'+instance,
@@ -38,7 +55,7 @@ if not os.path.isfile(instance+'.secret'):
                     print('failed to create app on instance '+instance)
                     sys.exit(1)
 
-try:
+            try:
                 mastodon_api = Mastodon(
                   client_id=instance+'.secret',
                   api_base_url='https://'+instance
@@ -49,19 +66,11 @@ try:
                     scopes=['read', 'write'],
                     to_file=mastodon+".secret"
                 )
-except:
+            except:
                 print("ERROR: First Login Failed!")
                 sys.exit(1)
 
-d = feedparser.parse('http://twitrss.me/twitter_user_to_rss/?user='+twitter)
 
-for t in reversed(d.entries):
-    # check if this tweet has been processed
-    db.execute('SELECT * FROM tweets WHERE tweet = ? AND twitter = ?  and mastodon = ? and instance = ?',(t.id, twitter, mastodon, instance))
-    last = db.fetchone()
-
-    # process only unprocessed tweets less than 1 day old
-    if last is None and (datetime.now()-datetime(t.published_parsed.tm_year, t.published_parsed.tm_mon, t.published_parsed.tm_mday, t.published_parsed.tm_hour, t.published_parsed.tm_min, t.published_parsed.tm_sec) < timedelta(days=1)):
         #h = BeautifulSoup(t.summary_detail.value, "html.parser")
         c = t.title
         toot_media = []