twiki

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

requirements

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

installation

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

docker-compose up

Set 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