leonceundlenaOct 29, 2022
Luca Hammer EN

I wrote a nano tool that tries to extract the #Fediverse accounts of your #Twitter followings: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

It searches for the patterns @[email protected], [email protected] and host.tld/@user in the screen name, description, location and URL field. It displays them to you in the correct format for easy copying as well as a CSV download that can be imported to #Mastodon.

New version: https://fedifinder-backup.glitch.me/

Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

Oct 29, 2022 at 10:25pmWeb
Show threadNils van LückOct 29, 2022
@Luca Very nice and simple tool. I actually found a few more missing accounts.👍
Show threadMatthias OttOct 29, 2022
@Luca Luca! 😍👏
Show threadeasrng Oct 30, 2022
@Luca what if you check the maillikes with webfinger to make sure they aren't emails?
Show threadIan RamjohnOct 30, 2022
@Luca Nice! I’ve been hoping a tool like this existed.
Show threadTobias RödelOct 30, 2022
@Luca für mich hat das hervorragend funktioniert! Wenn jetzt noch mehr Twitter User ihren Mastodon Handle ins Profil schreiben, funktioniert ein Umzug von Twitter nach Mastodon sehr schnell und ohne großen Qualitätsverlust.
Show threadPaul weinheimerOct 30, 2022
@Tobiasroedel @Luca ist es nötigt das direkt im Namen zu haben oder ist und der Bio bei Twitter ausreichend
Show threadTobias RödelOct 30, 2022
@PaulWeinheimer @Luca Name, Beschreibung, Ort und URL geht wohl.
Show threadNemo_bis 🌈Oct 30, 2022
@Luca Nice, this found a couple more accounts for me. It also finally made me mention my mastodon handle in my Twitter display name. (Previously people had to follow the link to my website.)
Show threadChristian SarisOct 30, 2022
@Luca Thanks for that tool. Worked like a charm.
Show threadKulturAspekteOct 30, 2022
@Luca Thanks for the tool, very useful!
Show threaddavid fieldOct 30, 2022
@Luca that's really cool
Show threadeve massacreOct 30, 2022
@Luca Wenn ich schon eine CSV habe und dann mit deinem Tool eine neue importiere, löscht es aber nicht die schon vorhandenen Follows, oder?
Show threadSteffen H #FBPE #Democracy 🇺🇦Oct 31, 2022
@evemassacre @Luca Nicht wenn du "merge" einstellst beim Importieren in der Mastodon instance, die du nutzt.
Show threadeve massacreOct 31, 2022
@steffenhe danke! das kleingedruckte hatte ich glatt überlesen. peinlich.
Show threadDaveOct 30, 2022
@Luca Let's hope that Twitter does not block your API key... the last tool that did something similar has been blocked pretty quickly. :/
Show threadAndy PiperOct 30, 2022
@anathem @Luca strange, I can't see a good reason for a block (although friends/follow endpoints have low rate limits)
Show threadDaveOct 31, 2022

@andypiper @Luca I've had multiple birdsite bots, and for each I did have to write a description on whay it does. One has been declined from the start, another blocked later. Best answer to the why was "Does not foster the community" (transcribed from memory).
I assume that the same happened to the mentioned tool, and I suspect that the same will happen to this tool, as soon as someone at Birdsite checks what the tool does.

But, as long as the API key works, let's just use it! \o/

Show threadirrewirreOct 30, 2022
@Luca Danke, hat super funktioniert!
Show threadChristianOct 30, 2022
Bei mir hat #fedifinder @detektorfm nicht gefunden, @Luca.
Woran kann das liegen?
https://twitter.com/detektorfm/status/1586456497089056768
Show threadElias MårtensonOct 30, 2022
@Luca isn't the email problem fixed by checking if there is a Mastodon instance on that domain?
Show threadCarsten WernerOct 30, 2022
@Luca Works great. Thank you!
Show threadAndreas HertenOct 30, 2022
@Luca Works like a charm, thanks, but I’m having some trouble identifying the Twitter handles which the accounts belong to. How about adding the respective Twitter account in the list?
Show threadaaronOct 30, 2022
@Luca Ich bekomme einen Fehler: „Error: Failed to find request token in session“ Just me?
Show threadaaronOct 30, 2022
@Luca Hab’s grad noch mal probiert und jetzt geht’s! Super Tool, danke 😊
Show threadVashbyOct 30, 2022
@Luca Seems to work perfectly so far
Show threadBen RamseyOct 30, 2022
@Luca @elazar I love that it’s on Glitch! 💕 /cc @anildash
Show threadChristina SørensenOct 30, 2022
@Luca This is really cool, thanks for making this!
Show threadCharles GabaOct 30, 2022
@Luca Thanks, but in my case all the downloaded handles appear to be email addresses...how do I know which are on Mastodon?
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 30, 2022
@charlesgaba I changed it, so it no longer detects mail addresses (and sadly no malformed fediverse accounts either).
Show threadCharles GabaOct 30, 2022
@Luca Thank you!
Show threadmarcelOct 30, 2022
@Luca Danke, danke, danke! 🫶
Show threadAbidOct 30, 2022
@Luca Nice tool! Why it is extracting only 70 followers?
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 30, 2022
@abid Because the others don't have identifiable fediverse accounts in their profile.
Show threadBen S.Oct 30, 2022
@Luca this is helpful, thanks! Although it also seems to pick up youtube accounts for some reason lol
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 30, 2022
@HunterZ Thanks for the feedback. Some day it should check for ./well-known to make sure it only identifies fediverse stuff, but until then I manually excluded youtube.
Show threadjxsOct 30, 2022
@Luca thanks for sharing and mentioning source is available.
Show threadVincent BattsOct 30, 2022
@Luca neat tool. Thanks for that! Might it work against lists created in Twitter?
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 30, 2022
@vbatts It would need some bigger changes, so I don't know if I will get to implement them. But it's the third point on my current to do list (1. check if instance is alive 2. search for tweets by followings that could link to accounts).
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 30, 2022
@vbatts It's open source, if someone else wants to look into it.
Show threadVincent BattsOct 30, 2022
@Luca also fair. Question was also an estimation of effort like your first response
Show threadDr. Casey FieslerOct 30, 2022
@Luca this prompted me to add my handle to my twitter bio!
Show threadKumar McMillanOct 30, 2022
@Luca great tool, thank you 🙏 I recommend advising people to search their *own* instance for each username since this is not an obvious way to follow accounts. The other way of loading each profile URL has terrible follow UX if it’s on a server you’re not signed into.
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 30, 2022
@kumarvibe That's why it shows the full handle instead of links. But the easiest way is to import the CSV. Maybe edit it before, to remove some accounts.
Show threadKumar McMillanOct 30, 2022
@Luca yeah, I just meant add instructions for how to follow the accounts. For example, I didn’t even know one could import a csv file!
Show threadAndromeda YeltonOct 30, 2022
@Luca so useful, thanks!
Show threadВаняOct 30, 2022

@Luca can't you just use WebFinger to filter usernames that only work with AP?

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/

Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 30, 2022
@bano yes, but I wrote it last night without the intention to invest much time. But it seems like enough people are interested to make it worthwhile to improve some things.
Show threadВаняOct 30, 2022
@Luca that’ll be great!
Show threadkouhai, of the health issuesOct 30, 2022
@Luca next step: checking if the domain is an activity pub domain
Show threadJohannes Mirus Oct 30, 2022
@Luca Klasse Tool, danke!
Show threadJosef Davies-CoatesOct 30, 2022
@Luca nice one, I just used this tool which does exactly the same thing https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/ h/t @eloquence
Show threadJosef Davies-CoatesOct 30, 2022
@Luca @eloquence indeed somehow https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/ found twice as many accounts for me
Debirdify

This is a web app that helps you find out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.

Show threadrobert daniel pickardOct 30, 2022

@Luca Was halfway done writing a version of this before I found yours. Well done!

The domain.tld/@user is a good trick. I was only looking for @[email protected].

Show threadMatt EdgarOct 30, 2022
@Luca Thank you! It worked a treat and I re-found a few people whose fediverse accounts I was missing
Show threadAlex KadisOct 30, 2022
@Luca very cool tool! Thanks!
Show threadTristan HarwardOct 30, 2022
@Luca this is great! Wish I’d found it before I deleted my bird site accounts. I might fork and try to modify to take whatever the Twitter data dump provides for user follows or interactions.
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 31, 2022
@trisweb You will probably have to change the "friends/list" API request to "users/lookup" and provide the IDs in bags of 100.
Show threadNelson MinarOct 30, 2022
@Luca this tool is great, thank you! one small feature request: some way to see if *my* Twitter account is mapped correctly to my Mastodon account. Maybe just a little form where I can type "@nelson" (my Twitter account) and it shows me the mapping to Mastodon.
Show threadLuca Hammer ENOct 31, 2022
@nelson That's a great idea. I am thinking about showing it at the top of the results. ”These accounts were found on your own profile: …"