sopel-twitter 1.0.1

A Twitter plugin for Sopel

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

Configuring

The easiest way to configure sopel-twitter is using Sopel's configuration wizard – simply run sopel-plugins configure twitter and enter the credentials for the Twitter application you created.

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

[twitter]
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: vxtwitter.com, nitter.net

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. ✨

Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

Fixed:

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

Changes between 0.4.1 and 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)

Changes between 0.4.0 and 0.4.1

Fixed:

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

Changes between 0.3.2 and 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)

Changes between 0.3.1 and 0.3.2

Fixed:

• Regression in profile link handling (#16)

Changes between 0.3.0 and 0.3.1

Fixed:

• Stricter /i/ URL matching (#15)

Changes between 0.2.1 and 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)

Changes between 0.2.0 and 0.2.1

Fixed:

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

Changes between 0.1.2 and 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)

Changes between 0.1.1 and 0.1.2

Added:

• Tweet link handling

Changes between 0.1.0 and 0.1.1

Fixed:

• Unicode on Python 3