From f07f4e570ab80b8e301cb3038cf9bdf47cd81dc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: VC Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 07:13:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Modify readme --- README.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 65f5bcc..4af8d06 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ A Twitter to Mastodon copy bot written in Rust +It: +* copies the content (text) of the original Tweet +* dereferences the links +* gets every attach media (photo, video or gif) + +If any of the last steps failed, the Toot gets published with the exact same text as the Tweet. + # Usage First up, create a configuration file (default path is `/usr/local/etc/scootaloo.toml`). It will look like this: @@ -56,5 +63,5 @@ SUBCOMMANDS: # Quirks -As of now, it’s only able to copy text from a tweet to a toot. Call this a work in progress. +Scootaloo does not respect the spam limits imposed by Mastodon: it will make a 429 error if too much Tweets are converted to Toots in a short amount of time (and it will not recover from it). By default, it gets the last 200 tweets from the user timeline (which is a lot!). It is recommended to put a Tweet number into the `last_tweet` file before copying an old account.