How to Build a Raspberry Pi Twitter-Pleroma Bot

I have a new home on the Fediverse and want to cross-post on Twitter and Pleroma. Here is a description of how I built my own Twitter-Pleroma bot.

I used Angus Young’s description on how to build a Raspberry Pi Twitter Bot as the starting point. I only had to add a few lines of code to turn it into a Twitter-Pleroma Bot. Below is the Python code, which is divided into two files: post.py and auth.py.

post.py

# Cross-post text on Twitter and Pleroma

# The heavy lifting is done by Requests and Twython
from twython import Twython
from auth import (
  twitter_consumer_key,
  twitter_consumer_secret,
  twitter_access_token,
  twitter_access_token_secret,
  pleroma_domain_name,
  pleroma_access_token
)
twitter = Twython(
  twitter_consumer_key,
  twitter_consumer_secret,
  twitter_access_token,
  twitter_access_token_secret
)

# Example text
text = 'Hello World!'

# Send the text to Twitter
twitter.update_status(status=text)

# Send the text to Pleroma
url = pleroma_domain_name + '/api/v1/statuses'
data = {'status': text}
headers = {'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + pleroma_access_token}
r = requests.post(url=url, data=data, headers=headers)

auth.py

# Authorization for Twitter and Pleroma
twitter_consumer_key        = 'XXX'
twitter_consumer_secret     = 'XXX'
twitter_access_token        = 'XXX'
twitter_access_token_secret = 'XXX'
pleroma_domain_name         = 'https://XXX'
pleroma_access_token        = 'XXX'

The authorization codes are obtained by registering the Twitter-Pleroma Bot. Angus Young describes how to register a Twitter App and Darius Kazemi describes how to register a Mastodon App. Kazemi’s description works for Pleroma too!

That’s it!

Related post:
Welcom to my new home on the Fediverse