A command line tool to show your twitter / mastodon followers who is fronting from bash in your bio

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Licensed under the WTFNOPL
# Written by the Multiverse System, mostly Theta.
# Requires Tweepy & Mastodon.py modules

from mastodon import Mastodon
import tweepy
import os
import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser("Switch")
parser.add_argument("--front", help="Name of Alter.", type=str, default="")
parser.add_argument("--pre", help="Text to put before the Alters name.", type=str, default="")
parser.add_argument("--post", help="Text to put after the Alters name.", type=str, default="")
parser.add_argument("--service", help="Change Twitter / Masto (default is both)", type=str, default="")
args = parser.parse_args()

# Twitter API Creds. Update it to use environment variables if you care enough
twit = {
    "access_token" : "TWITTER ACCESS TOKEN HERE",
    "access_token_secret" : "TWITTER ACCESS TOKEN SECRET HERE",
    "consumer_key" : "TWITTER CONSUMER KEY HERE",
    "consumer_secret" : "TWITTER CONSUMER SECRET HERE",
    "bio" : "Copy your current bio and paste it here. Use \n to represent newlines"
}

# Ditto for mastodon
masto = {
    "access_token" : "MASTODON ACCESS TOKEN HERE",
    "bio" : "Copy your current bio and paste it here. Use \n to represent newlines",
    "url" : "THE URL OF YOUR MASTODON INSTANCE HERE"
}

auth = tweepy.OAuth1UserHandler(
   twit['consumer_key'], 
   twit['consumer_secret'], 
   twit['access_token'], 
   twit['access_token_secret']
)

mastodon = Mastodon(
    access_token = masto['access_token'],
    api_base_url = masto['url']
)

twitter = tweepy.API(auth)

def updateTwitter():
    try:
        print("Adding "+args.front+" to twitter bio")
        twitter.update_profile(description=(args.pre + twit['bio'] + args.front.replace('"','') + args.post))
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))

def updateMastodon():
    try:
        print("Adding "+args.front+" to mastodon bio")
        mastodon.account_update_credentials(note=(args.pre + masto['bio'] + args.front.replace('"','') + args.post))
    except Exception as e:
        print(str(e))

if "twit" in args.service.lower(): 
    updateTwitter()
elif "masto" in args.service.lower(): 
    updateMastodon()
else:
    updateTwitter()
    updateMastodon()