Translate one tweet into English once a day and automatically post

• I wanted to manage an English Twitter account but found it cumbersome and didn’t get around to it.

• If I translate Japanese tweets into English and post them regularly, the account should appear active.

• I wrote a script:

  • https://gist.github.com/blu3mo/f059190e6e35dead69adfcd9998cae28
  • Feel free to use it. CC-0
  • Configuration explanation:
    • TWITTER_CONSUMER_KEY/TWITTER_CONSUMER_SECRET/TWITTER_ACCESS_TOKEN/TWITTER_ACCESS_SECRET/TWITTER_BEARER_TOKEN
      • Account for posting English tweets
      • Log in to the X Developer Portal with the English account to obtain these keys
        • Allow Read/Write in OAuth settings and then regenerate the keys
    • SOURCE_USERNAME
      • Your own account tweeting in Japanese
      • In my case, it’s @blu3mo
    • FETCH_USERNAME/FETCH_EMAIL/FETCH_PASSWORD
      • Account for scraping
      • It is recommended to use a separate account from the main or translation account
        • There is a risk of being frozen due to scraping + writing the password in plaintext in the config
      • I created a disposable account (blu3mo)
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  • Specifications: Retrieve tweets from the previous day and tweet them all at a time when people in the US time zone are awake
    • 
    • Let’s do it at 11 am EST, 8 am PST
    • It’s midnight in JST, perfect timing
    • Use cron?
      • Will it work during sleep..? (blu3mo)
        • Seems unlikely
    • Tried using GitHub actions but encountered errors and got stuck
      • https://github.com/d60/twikit/issues/169
      • It’s the same issue. Someone reported it 12 hours ago, so it seems like a fairly recent bug (blu3mo)
        • This aggressive scraping is tough