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mastoposter - easy-to-use mastodon-to-[everything] reposter!
Mastoposter is a simple zero-headache* service that forwards your toots from any Mastodon-compatible Fediverse software (Pleroma also works!) to any of your other services! For now it supports only Discord webhooks and Telegram, but it can be easily extended to support pretty much anything!
Installation
You can run it either on your host machine, or inside a Docker container. In any case, you have to clone that repo first in order to do anything:
git clone https://github.com/hatkidchan/mastoposter && cd mastoposter
After that, you can either run it in Docker, set up a standalone systemd service, or just run it as it is!
Docker:
docker build -t mastoposter .
docker run --restart=always -dv /path/to/config.ini:/config.ini:ro --name mastoposter mastoposter
And you should be good to go
Systemd
Let's say that you've cloned that repo to the $MASTOPOSTER_ROOT, then
configuration should look something like that:
[Unit]
Description=Crossposter from Mastodon
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=$MASTOPOSTER_USER
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 -m mastoposter config.ini
WorkingDirectory=$MASTOPOSTER_ROOT
Restart=on-failure
[Install]
WantedBy=network.target
Before running it though, don't forget to install dependencies from the ./requirements.txt, but it's a good idea to use a virtual environment for that. Though, that's outside of the scope of that, so I won't cover it here.
Running manually
Just be in the folder with it, have dependencies installed and run: python3 -m mastoposter config.ini
Configuration
Configuration file is just a regular INI file with a couple sections.
[main]
Section main contains settings of your account (ie, your instance, list ID,
user ID, access token), as well as list of modules to load.
instance
This is your instance. It should be written without the https:// part, so,
for example, mastodon.social.
token
This is your access token.
On Mastodon, you can acquire it by creating an application with the minimum of
read:statuses and read:lists permissions.
On Pleroma you're out of luck and have to manually lure your token out of the
frontend you're using. For example, in Pleroma FE you can look in the "Network"
tab of the devtools and look for chats request. Inside the request headers,
there should be Authorization: Bearer XXXXXXXXXXX header. That's your token.
user
It's still not properly tested, but you could just leave it as auto for now.
In case it fails, on Mastodon you can get your user ID by looking at your profile picture URL. The part between "/avatars/" and "original/" without all of the slashes is your user ID.
On Pleroma you're out of luck again, I don't remember how I got mine. Just hope that "auto" will work, lol.
list
That's the main problem of this crossposter: it requires a list to be created to function properly. Both Pleroma and Mastodon support them, so it shouldn't be a big deal. Just create a list, add yourself into it and copy its ID (it should be in the address bar).
List is required to filter incoming events. You can't just listen for home timeline 'cause some events are not guaranteed to be there (boosts at least).
auto-reconnect
You can set it to either yes or no. When set to yes, it will reconnect
on any websocket error, but not on any error related to modules (even if it's a
connection error!!!)
modules
More about them later
Modules
There's two types of modules supported at this point: telegram and discord.
Both of them are self-explanatory, but we'll go over them real quick.
Each module should contain at least type property and its name should start
with the module/. filters field is also can be specified. Check the
corresponding section to learn more about them.
To use module, add it to the modules field in the main section. It should
not have the module/ prefix since it's always there. You can use multiple
modules and separate them using spaces.
type = telegram
Module with that type will work in Telegram mode.
It requires your Bot token to be set in the token field, as well as chat
to be set with your chat ID. You can use @username if the chat is public.
Also there's a silent field, when it's set to true, it'll set
disable_notification flag on every post sent.
template field contains your template for the message. It's pretty much
Jinja2 template. Since we use parse_mode=html, your template should be
formatted appropriately. Template itself has only status variable exposed,
which contains the status/post/toot itself. There's also some handy properties
such as reblog_or_status which points to either reblog, or status itself. Or
name_emojiless which contains the name without emojis. Or name which
contains either display_name or username, if first one is empty.
type = discord
Module for Discord webhooks. The only required parameter (besides the type) is
webhook. It should have wait=true set. You can also use thread_id as a
GET parameter to that. You also can use filters, nothing special about that.
Filters
Filters are the most powerful feature of this crossposter. They allow you to...
Filter out where posts should and shouldn't go! It's that easy!
There's a couple of filters with different types and options, but all of them
should be contained in sections with names starting with filter/, as well
as have a type field with filter type.
Also, you can specify multiple filters and they'll be chained together using
AND operator. You can also prefix filter name with either ~ or ! to invert
its behavior.
type = boost
Simple filter that passes through posts that are boosted from someone.
It also has an optional list property where you can specify the list of
accounts to check from. You can use globbing, but be aware, that it uses
fnmatch function to glob stuff, so @* doesn't mean "any local user", but
rather it means "any user". NOTE that his behavior is not intended and may be
changed to more appropriate one later. If list is empty, any boost will
trigger that filter. If list is not empty, it will allow only users from that
list.
type = mention
This filter is kinda similar to the boost one, but works with mentions.
Also has list property, yada yada you got the idea, same deal with fnmatch.
type = spoiler
Matches posts with spoilers/content-warnings.
Has an optional regexp parameter that will allow you to specify regular
expression to match your spoiler text.
type = content
Filter to match post content against either a regular expression, or a list of tags. Matching is done on the plaintext version of the post.
You can have one of two properties (but not both because fuck you): tags or
regexp. It's obvious what does what: if you have regexp set, plaintext
version of status is checked against that regular expression, and if you have
tags set, then only statuses that have those tags will be allowed.
Please note that in case of tags, you should NOT use # symbol in front of
them.
type = visibility
Simple filter that just checks for post visibility.
Has a single property options that is a space-separated list of allowed
visibility levels. Note that direct visibility is always ignored so cannot
be used here.
type = combined
The most powerful filter 'cause it allows you to combine multiple filters using different operations.
filters option should contain space-separated list of filters. You also can
negate them using ! or ~ prefixes.
operator is a type of operation to be used. Can be either all, any or
single. all means that all of the filters should be used. any means
that if any filter is triggered, this one will also trigger. single means
that only one filter should be triggered. Think of it as an XOR operation of
some sort.
Sample configurations
For Telegram:
[main]
modules = tg
instance = expired.mentality.rip
token = haha-no
list = 42
user = auto
[module/tg]
type = telegram
token = 12345:blahblahblah
chat = 12345
For Telegram with a separate shitpost channel:
[main]
modules = tg tg-shitpost
instance = expired.mentality.rip
token = haha-no
list = 42
user = auto
[module/tg]
type = telegram
token = 12345:blahblahblah
chat = 12345
filters = !shitpost
[module/tg-shitpost]
type = telegram
token = 12345:blahblahblah
chat = @shitposting
filters = shitpost
[filters/shitpost]
type = content
mode = tag
tags = shitpost