This project can export Twitter posts to Mastodon. There are already some projects doing that. But this one will also change the post time for the imported post. Need to be able to access Mastodon's database in order to do that.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Change the fields in config.py.

Run this command:

python register_mastodon.py

This will register a Mastodon app called twitter_importer and login the user.

mkdir tmp
python main.py

This will import all the posts from Twitter to Mastodon. The media attached in the posts will be downloaded to tmp/ and uploaded to Mastodon later.

This command may stuck and fail because of rate limit for Mastodon API. It will output the Twitter ID it's processing. So if you want to restart the porgram, change twitter_max_id in config.py to import from that tweet.

It will download all the tweets from the user first and store them in the memory. The reason is we want to reverse the timeline and import from the earliest one. So if you have a lot of tweets and a small memory, it may not be able to import.