[0.8.0] - 2021-02-03

Added

• Support for OAuth 1.0a authentication (needed if retrieving tweets from protected accounts)
• Verbose argument -v for debugging
• twitter_username can take a list as a value. They are internally broken apart into multiple User objects

Fixed

• HTML character entities incorrect escaping in tweet's body
• First run skip condition if the Fediverse had no posts/tweets published as a result of a manual first run

Enhancements

• Provide feedback when long operations are running (speeen)
• Color output based on logging level

Upgrade notes

If you're in a previous version, simply run this command to update to the latest stable version:

pip install --upgrade pleroma-bot

[0.7.0] - 2021-01-19

Added

• New and shiny help page
• Checks for first run (no posts/toots on the Fediverse account, or no user folder present)
• Argument --forceDate to allow setting a starting date for tweet retrieval (optionally forcing it on a user-by-user basis by providing twitter_username to identify the user on the config file)

Fixed

• Handle instances being unreachable when trying to get version info to identify their platform

Enhancements

• Reworked how arguments are parsed and processed with argparse
• Pagination implemented for tweet retrieval (which allows tweets older than one week to be retrieved)

[0.6.8] - 2021-01-13

Added

• New config attribute added (include_replies) which allows filtering tweets which are replies. Users now can choose whether to drop reply tweets or not (by default include_replies is true)

Fixed

• Exception when Twitter display name is longer than 30 Characters and target instance platform is Mastodon (which supports only up to 30)

Enhancements

• Refactored and aligned the format of old code
• More readable console output when mirroring multiple users

[0.6.2] - 2020-01-07

Fixed

• profile_banner_url returns a status code 404 for some users. Now we specifically request the biggest size (1500x500)

[0.6.1] - 2020-01-07

Added

• New attribute include_rts allows choosing whether if retweets are to be posted or ignored.
• New attribute file_max_size allows setting a maximum size limit for attachments. If exceeded, the attachment will be dropped and won't be uploaded to the Fediverse instance.
• Settings to use different nitter instances (thanks zoenglinghou!)

Fixed

• Timestamp format for Mastodon instances adjustments
• Sensitivity boolean ignored by Mastodon instances if capitalized

Enhancements

• Improved Mastodon compatibility

Upgrade notes

If you're in a previous version simply run this command to update to the latest stable version:

pip install --upgrade pleroma-bot

[0.5.0] - 2020-11-21

Added

• Support for using the original tweet sensitivity (nsfw flag) when posting on the Fediverse account

Fixed

• Exception when no tweets are found within the last week (/tweets/search/recent)

Upgrade notes

• Remove the attribute 'sensitive' from your user section in your config.yml if you want to honor the
  original tweet's sensitivity instead of forcing it globally for all the posts by that user.

[0.4.0] - 2020-10-24

Added

• Added support for polls 🎉 (thanks zoenglinghou!)
• Migrated to Twitter API v2 (falling back to v1.1 for video attachments and animated gifs)

Enhancements

• Refactored and packaged the code for easy installation. Link to project at PyPI.

Fixed

• Fixed posting only the first media element in a multiple media tweet
• Fixed video attachments not being downloaded (and uploaded to the Fediverse post)
• Fixed the exception when Twitter user has no profile and/or banner images (thanks zoenglinghou!)

Upgrade notes

• Place/move your config.yml to whichever path you want to run pleroma-bot
• If you were using cron, change:
  • python3 /path/to/updateInfoPleroma.py noProfile
  • to cd /path/to/your/venv/ && . bin/activate && pleroma-bot noProfile

[0.3.0] - 2020-10-07

Added

• Dynamic attribute loading for the User object from the config file
• Rich text for linking mentions to their Twitter profile
• Allow visibility and sensitivity to be set in the config file

Fixed

• Replacing the wrong strings in tweet body while expanding URLs
• nitter.net replacement in twitter.com links misbehaviour
• Default to retrieve tweets from the last 48h if Pleroma user has no posts (thanks zoenglinghou!)

Upgrade notes

1. Replace the field name pleroma_url with pleroma_base_url on your config.yml
2. Replace the field name twitter_url with twitter_base_url on your config.yml

[0.2.0] - 2020-08-23

Added

• Support for tweet attachments
• Allow different usernames for Pleroma and Twitter accounts
• Expand shortened URLs on tweet body
• Support for pinned tweets
• nitter.net URL replacement
• Metadata fields can be defined in config.yml

Fixed

• RTs only showed body text, with no indicators of being a retweet

Upgrade notes

1. Update config.yml values and fields as described in the README.md

[0.1.0] - 2020-08-20

TEXT-ONLY
This release is good enough for text-only tweet mirroring. All media associated with the the tweets will be dropped.