mastodon-hashtag-spreader/hashtag-spreader.py
2019-07-30 21:06:25 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import json
from threading import Thread
from mastodon import Mastodon, StreamListener
def print_status(status):
print("time: " + str(status["created_at"]))
print("from: @" + status["account"]["acct"])
class TootListener(StreamListener):
"""
Listener class, handling incoming statuses
"""
def __init__(self, source, drain):
self.source = source # Source instance Mastodon object
self.drain = drain # Drain instance Mastodon object
def on_update(self, status):
# Just printing some stuff to make it look beautiful in terminal
# More for debugging than anything else
print("")
print("--")
print("RECIEVE " + self.source.api_base_url + "")
print_status(status)
print("SEARCH " + self.drain.api_base_url + "")
# Searching for the URL of the incoming status in our drain instance
try:
search = self.drain.search(status.url)
for s in search["statuses"]:
print_status(s)
except:
print("failed")
print("--")
class HashtagSpreader(Thread):
"""
Thread class, streaming one hashtag from one the source instance and searching for the post URL in the drain instance
"""
def __init__(self, source, drain, hashtag):
Thread.__init__(self) # Configure the thread
self.source = source # Source instance Mastodon object
self.drain = drain # Drain instance Mastodon object
self.hashtag = hashtag # The hashtag (without #) as a string, we want to stream
def run(self):
tootListener = TootListener(self.source, self.drain)
self.source.stream_hashtag(self.hashtag, tootListener) # Stream our hashtag
if __name__ == "__main__":
instances = {}
threads = []
with open("config.json", 'r') as f:
config = json.load(f)
if config:
# Create Mastodon objects for every instance
for instance in config["instances"]:
instances[instance] = Mastodon(access_token = config["instances"][instance], api_base_url = "https://" + instance)
# Create threads for every hashtag of a relation
for spread in config["spreads"]:
if spread["source"] in instances and spread["drain"] in instances:
for hashtag in spread["hashtags"]:
threads.append(HashtagSpreader(instances[spread["source"]], instances[spread["drain"]], hashtag))
# Start all threads
for thread in threads:
thread.start()