Not my ex

Tiny app to post simultaneously to Mastodon and Bluesky.

Obviously, based on cuducos/from-my-ex.

It supports:

Post status updates to both networks with a simple CLI command
Posting with images
Including alt text for images
Setting post language

It does not support:

Tagging other users (they would have different IDs and servers in each platform)

It used to have:

A simple GUI (version 0.1.1), but dropped support to focus on CLI — there are other great GUI out there by now

Getting started

Requirements

Python 3.9 or newer

Optionally, you can set some environment variables, but you don't have to.

Environment variables

General settings

Name	Description	Example	Default value
`NOT_MY_EX_DEFAULT_LANG`	2-letter ISO 639-1 code	`"pt"`	`None`

To post to Bluesky

Name	Description	Example	Default value
`NOT_MY_EX_BSKY_AGENT`	Bluesky instance	`"https://bsky.social"`	`"https://bsky.social"`
`NOT_MY_EX_BSKY_EMAIL`	Email used in Bluesky	`"cuducos@mailinator.com"`	`None`
`NOT_MY_EX_BSKY_PASSWORD`	Password used in Bluesky	As created in App Passwords.	`None`

Not setting NOT_MY_EX_BSKY_EMAIL or NOT_MY_EX_BSKY_PASSWORD disables posting to Bluesky.

To post to Mastodon

Name	Description	Example	Default value
`NOT_MY_EX_MASTODON_INSTANCE`	Mastodon instance	`"https://tech.lgbt"`	`"https://mastodon.social"`
`NOT_MY_EX_MASTODON_TOKEN`	Mastodon access token	Go to your Settings, Development and then create an app to get the access token. Select the `write:statuses` and `write:media` scopes.	`None`

Not setting NOT_MY_EX_MASTODON_TOKEN disables posting to Mastodon.

Install

$ pip install not-my-ex

Usage

CLI

$ not-my-ex post "Magic, madness, heaven, sin" --images /tmp/1989.gif

You can skip the post text; in that case, it will open $EDITOR so you can write your post.

You can skip --images or pass multiple images (e.g. --images taylor.jpg --images swift.gif).

Check --help for more details on commands and subcommand.

API

from asyncio import gather

from httpx import AsyncClient

from not_my_ex.auth import EnvAuth
from not_my_ex.bluesky import Bluesky
from not_my_ex.mastodon import Mastodon
from not_my_ex.media import Media
from not_my_ex.post import Post


async def main():
    auth = EnvAuth()
    media_tasks = tuple(
        Media.from_img(path, alt, auth.image_size_limit)
        for path, alt in (("taylor.jpg", "Taylor"), ("swift.jpg", "Swift"))
    )
    media = await gather(*media_tasks)

    post = Post("Magic, madness, heaven, sin", auth.limit, media, "en")
    async with AsyncClient() as http:
        post_tasks = tuple(cls(http).post(post) for cls in (Bluesky, Mastodon))
        await gather(*post_tasks)

In Post, limit, media and lang are optional. In Media, both alt and image_size_limit are optional.

The usage of auth.limit and auth.image_size_limit makes sure the limits are set according to the authenticated clients.

Contributing

Requires uv Python package manager. The tests include Ruff and Mypy:

$ uv run pytest

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