A simple tool which lets you scrape twitter accounts and crosspost them to bluesky accounts! Comes with a CLI and a webapp for managing profiles! Works with images/videos/link embeds/threads.
feat: recursive backfill for broken threads
- Automatically fetch and process missing parent tweets if they belong to the same user.\n- Resolves issues with threaded replies being skipped during partial backfills.
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src/index.ts
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src/index.ts
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if (replyStatusId && localProcessedMap[replyStatusId]) {
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console.log(`[${twitterUsername}] 🧵 Threading reply to post in ${bskyIdentifier}: ${replyStatusId}`);
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replyParentInfo = localProcessedMap[replyStatusId] ?? null;
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} else if (replyStatusId) {
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// Parent missing from local batch/DB. Attempt to fetch it if it's a self-thread.
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// We assume it's a self-thread if we don't have it, but we'll verify author after fetch.
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console.log(`[${twitterUsername}] 🕵️ Parent ${replyStatusId} missing. Checking if backfillable...`);
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let parentBackfilled = false;
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try {
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const scraper = await getTwitterScraper();
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if (scraper) {
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const parentRaw = await scraper.getTweet(replyStatusId);
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if (parentRaw) {
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const parentTweet = mapScraperTweetToLocalTweet(parentRaw);
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const parentAuthor = parentTweet.user?.screen_name;
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if (parentAuthor?.toLowerCase() === twitterUsername.toLowerCase()) {
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console.log(`[${twitterUsername}] 🔄 Parent is ours (@${parentAuthor}). Backfilling parent first...`);
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// Recursively process the parent
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await processTweets(agent, twitterUsername, bskyIdentifier, [parentTweet], dryRun);
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// Check if it was saved
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const savedParent = dbService.getTweet(replyStatusId, bskyIdentifier);
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if (savedParent && savedParent.status === 'migrated') {
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// Update local map
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localProcessedMap[replyStatusId] = {
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uri: savedParent.bsky_uri,
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cid: savedParent.bsky_cid,
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root: (savedParent.bsky_root_uri && savedParent.bsky_root_cid) ? { uri: savedParent.bsky_root_uri, cid: savedParent.bsky_root_cid } : undefined,
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tail: (savedParent.bsky_tail_uri && savedParent.bsky_tail_cid) ? { uri: savedParent.bsky_tail_uri, cid: savedParent.bsky_tail_cid } : undefined,
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migrated: true
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};
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replyParentInfo = localProcessedMap[replyStatusId] ?? null;
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parentBackfilled = true;
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console.log(`[${twitterUsername}] ✅ Parent backfilled. Resuming thread.`);
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}
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} else {
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console.log(`[${twitterUsername}] ⏩ Parent is by @${parentAuthor}. Skipping external reply.`);
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}
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}
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}
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} catch (e) {
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console.warn(`[${twitterUsername}] ⚠️ Failed to fetch/backfill parent ${replyStatusId}:`, e);
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}
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if (!parentBackfilled) {
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console.log(`[${twitterUsername}] ⏩ Skipping external/unknown reply (Parent not found or external).`);
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if (!dryRun) {
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saveProcessedTweet(twitterUsername, bskyIdentifier, tweetId, { skipped: true, text: tweetText });
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localProcessedMap[tweetId] = { skipped: true, text: tweetText };
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}
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continue;
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}
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} else {
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console.log(`[${twitterUsername}] ⏩ Skipping external/unknown reply.`);
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if (!dryRun) {