sopel-twitter

A Twitter plugin for Sopel.

Installation

Releases are hosted on PyPI, so after installing Sopel, all you need is pip:

$ pip install sopel-twitter

If you want to use the development version, simply clone the repository and use pip install path/to/sopel-twitter

Newer library versions

sopel-twitter relies on a third-party library to access data, which does not always publish its latest code to PyPI. If you run into problems with this plugin, install the latest library code and see if that solves your issue.

Please also feel free to submit pull requests updating this plugin's version constraints if you have tested a newer library release than what is currently allowed. Thanks for your help!

Configuring

Twitter account required to use this plugin as of 1 July 2023. You probably want to minimize the potential impact of adverse action by using a throwaway login instead of your real profile. New accounts can (as of 19 July 2023) be verified using only an email address.

The easiest way to configure sopel-twitter is via Sopel's configuration wizard – simply run sopel-plugins configure twitter and enter the values for which it prompts you.

Otherwise, you can edit your bot's configuration file:

[twitter]
username = mybotaccount
password = s3cretb0tp@ss
# Both Required

show_quoted_tweets = True
# Optional: For quote-tweets, send a second message showing the quoted tweet?
# Default: True

alternate_domains =
    fxtwitter.com
    vxtwitter.com
    nitter.net
# Optional: What other domains should we treat like twitter domains?
# Default: fxtwitter.com, vxtwitter.com, nitter.net

Important housekeeping notes

The library this plugin uses for Twitter data access previously stored its login session data in the current working directory. For Sopel, that was the directory from which the sopel command was run.

As of sopel-twitter 1.3.1, a newer library version became available with support for storing session data in Sopel's homedir instead. You can clean up the old session files left behind by sopel-twitter 1.3.0 by running e.g. find / -type f -name 'sopel-twitter*.json' 2>/dev/null. (Running find on / tends to output numerous "Permission denied" errors, so suppressing stderr is recommended.)

Prior to the release of sopel-twitter 1.3.2, the session data filename changed upstream from .json to .tw_session. This plugin will attempt to rename the old session file if it exists, but if that fails you might want to clean up the leftover config_name.sopel-twitter.json file.

Usage

Just send a link to a tweet or profile!

You can also retrieve a user's info with the .twitinfo command:

< Wiz> .twitinfo NASA
< Sopel> [Twitter] NASA (@NASA) ✔️ | Pale Blue Dot | http://www.nasa.gov/
         | 204 friends, 46,602,251 followers | 65,377 tweets, 13,040 ♥s
         | Joined: 2007-12-19 - 20:20:32UTC | There's space for everybody. ✨

Changelog

1.4.0

Changed:

• Updated tweety-ns library to 2.x (#70)
• Require Sopel 8
• Require Python 3.9+; tweety's code raises errors on 3.8 even though Sopel 8 still supports it

Meta:

• Updated packaging & upload workflow
• Cleaned up unused imports & Python 2 era cruft
• Updated plugin file header (licensing)
• Reformatted changelog with cleaner headings and an actual entry for 0.1.0

1.3.9

Fixed:

• Regression that removed "Quoting" indicator from quoted tweets (#67)
• Poor setup logic that did not correctly handle expired login sessions (#68)

1.3.8

Added:

• Handle more exception types when fetching tweets (#66)

Changed:

• Upgrade minimum tweety-ns version to 1.1.4 (#65)
• Check public session state property instead of internal value (#65)

1.3.7

Added:

• Gracefully truncate long tweet text (#61)

Changed:

• Upgrade to newer tweety-ns library: 1.1.* >= 1.1.2 (#63)

Meta:

• Add automatic package publishing
• Clean up unused source files

1.3.6

Added:

• Handle fixvx.com links by default (#60)
• Better documentation about keeping the upstream library updated

1.3.5

Changed:

• Upgrade to newer tweety-ns library: any 1.0.* version (#59)

1.3.4

Fixed:

• Handle int fields of User that can be None, again (#57)

1.3.3

Added:

• Handle x.com links (#55)

Fixed:

• Handle int fields of User that can be None (#54)
• Correctly escape extra domains when lazily building URL patterns (#56)

1.3.2

Changed:

• Use updated tweety-ns 0.9.9 with updated session storage filename (#53)
  • .json has become .tw_session
  • sopel-twitter will automatically rename the old .json file(s) if present, unless the corresponding tw_session file already exists (i.e. tweety-ns was updated prior to installing sopel-twitter 1.3.2)

Fixed:

• Handle new ActionRequired exception type (#53)
  • Just a graceful failure message, for now; open an issue if you actually run into this, to help gauge how important more comprehensive handling might be.

1.3.1

Changed:

• Use updated tweety-ns with option to specify session JSON storage location (#51)
  • Now stored in Sopel's homedir
  • See README for shell commands suggested for cleaning up the old ones

Fixed:

• Handle new DeniedLogin exception (#52)

1.3.0

Breaking:

• Login with username/password is now required
  • Creating a throwaway Twitter account is recommended

Changed:

• Updated to tweety-ns 0.9 (#50)

1.2.0

Breaking:

• Twitter cookies are now required

Changed:

• Updated to tweety-ns 0.8 (#48)

1.1.0

Changed:

• Updated to tweety-ns 0.7, including revamped exceptions (#46)

1.0.1

Fixed:

• Don't cache Tweety object; it stops working after some hours (#43)

1.0.0

Important: Package name is now sopel-twitter

Added:

• Option to specify additional domains that can be treated as Twitter links (#34, #37)

Changed:

• Use BooleanAttribute setting type where appropriate (#27)
• Use future-proof plugin decorators (#30)
• Migrate from namespace package to entry point (#41)
• Migrate to Tweety library for data access; no more API keys (#42)
• Minimum Sopel version raised to 7.1 (#27)

Fixed:

• /i/web/status links (#33)
• Collapse consecutive newlines (#36)
• Properly set up logger (#38)

0.4.1

Fixed:

• Detecting user profile links with trailing slash or query params (#28)
• Error when quoted tweet has been deleted (#31)

0.4.0

Added:

• .twitinfo command for user lookup (#20)
• Support for mobile links (#21)

Changed:

• Updated documentation for configuration (#25) and setup of Twitter API account

Fixed:

• Media link output when quoted tweets are involved (#24)

0.3.2

Fixed:

• Regression in profile link handling (#16)

0.3.1

Fixed:

• Stricter /i/ URL matching (#15)

0.3.0

Changed:

• Tweet output includes a timestamp now (#13)
• Improved media link handling (#5, #12)

Added:

• Handling for profile/user links (#7)
• Handling for less common /i/web/status style links (#11)

Fixed:

• Decode HTML entities before output (#14)

0.2.1

Fixed:

• Some quoted tweets would cause KeyError: 'text' (#9)

0.2.0

Changed:

• Now requires Sopel 7.x (#8)
• Newlines in tweet text will be replaced with a carriage return symbol, to indicate author intention (#4)

Added:

• Handling of 280-character tweets (#4)
• More graceful handling of API errors (#6)

Meta:

• Package metadata updated (new maintainer, HTTPS links)

0.1.2

Added:

• Tweet link handling

0.1.1

Fixed:

• Unicode on Python 3

0.1.0

Initial release, dated November 5, 2016.