Post by @vincent@social.librem.one

@vincent@social.librem.one

2023-08-18 15:53 UTC

I will continue with something homegrown for users and individual tweets, but I'm thinking if I should add a dependency on nitter to fetch timelines 🤔 The lead dev has timelines working again already: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-1684070343 While having everything built-in is neat, strategies to crawl are getting more complicated and it's starting to take a lot of time to re-implement things in C#

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@davinkevin@mastodon.davinkevin.fr 2023-08-18 16:18

@vincent@social.librem.one +1 to connect it to nitter. I had the same dilemma for @podcastserver@mastodon.davinkevin.fr and in the end I used yt-dlp instead of reimplementing everything… it didn't worth it for end-users.

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@clayton_oneill@noc.social 2023-08-18 17:20

@vincent@social.librem.one Agreed, I'd love to at least have a link to Nitter from the page, if not just have the web link for the post go directly to nitter

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@mikemacleod@infosec.exchange 2023-08-18 18:48

@vincent@social.librem.one if you’re going to introduce a dependency, might as well leverage it for as much as you can? Let nitter do as much of the heavy lifting as possible. I haven’t looked at nitter before, but looks like you can self-host it on your new k8s cluster. At that point you can claim bird uses a microservice architecture :)

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