Cross-posts recent changes made to a MediaWiki.
This tool started as "twitter only" news updater but is now a cross-poster.
It can be seen in action at:
- Twitter https://twitter.com/chaosdorf_wiki
- Mastodon https://botsin.space/web/@chaosdorf_wiki
- Matrix https://app.element.io/#/room/#chaosdorf-activities:cybre.space
- Discord
twiki needs a few things to work:
- Python 3
- a MediaWiki to monitor (it needs no account or key, though)
- at least one supported social media account to post from (with credentials)
- a few Python libraries
To get started, please clone this repo somewhere first.
Then create a new file called config_local.py containing at least these options:
TWITTER_DRY_RUN = True
TWITTER_API_KEY = '<key>'
TWITTER_API_SECRET = '<secret>'
TWITTER_TOKEN = '<token>'
TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET = '<token secret>'For docker, you can set these also in the container/.env file in uppercase (INTERVAL is docker exclusive in seconds):
INTERVAL=300
TWITTER_DRY_RUN=1
TWITTER_API_KEY=<KEY>
TWITTER_API_SECRET=<SECRET>
TWITTER_TOKEN=<TOKEN>
TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET=<TOKEN_SECRET>You may want to set the first option to False after confirming that everything works as expected.
You can configure twiki even more - simply override the values in config.py.
Then, please setup the pipenv: (You need to have pipenv installed for this.)
pipenv install
You can test twiki and your configuration by running pipenv run ./messager.py.
If you don't want to install pipenv just for this application (you should, your're missing some nice features), you can still use pip:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
And then run it with python3 messager.py.
If everything works, set TWITTER_DRY_RUN to False and add a cron job (or something similiar).
docker-compose upSet the environment variable INTERVAL in seconds for the call-delay. Default is 300 seconds (5 minutes).
You can use container/.env file. Do not commit this with any data, it just has to exist for compose to function.
INTERVAL=300