# TootBot

A small python 3.x script to replicate tweets on a mastodon account.

The script only need mastodon login/pass to post toots. It can run on any server (does not have to
be on the mastodon instance server).

It gets the tweets from RSS available at http://twitrss.me, then does some cleanup on the content:
- twitter tracking links (t.co) are dereferenced
- twitter hosted pictures are retrieved and uploaded to mastodon

A sqlite database is used to keep track of tweets than have been tooted.

To run, fork this repo and enter the details for your bot account(s) in `templates/run-bot.sh`.

Based on [github.com/cquest/tootbot](https://github.com/cquest/tootbot)

I am using this bot for the following accounts:

https://newsbots.eu/@itsgoingdown
https://newsbots.eu/@telesur_en
https://newsbots.eu/@telesur_es
https://newsbots.eu/@granma
https://newsbots.eu/@derpostillon
https://newsbots.eu/@telepolis