Charlie O'Hara awfulwoman

gif-from-tweet

There are so many great GIFs out there and I want to have copies of them. Twitter makes that harder than it should be by converting them to MP4 and not providing access to the source material. To make it easier, I made a bash pipeline that takes a tweet URL and a filename, extracts the MP4 from that tweet and uses ffmpeg to convert back to GIF.

Dependencies

ffmpeg
- macOS: brew install ffmpeg
- Ubuntu/Debian: apt install ffmpeg

Enable TCP port 2375 for external connection to Docker

See this issue.
Docker best practise to Control and configure Docker with systemd.

Create daemon.json file in /etc/docker:

 {"hosts": ["tcp://0.0.0.0:2375", "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"]}

Transmission Blocklist

The Transmission torrent client has an option to set a Blocklist, which helps protect you from getting caught and having the DMCA send a letter/email.

It's as simple as downloading and installing the latest client:

https://transmissionbt.com/download/

	#!/bin/bash

	#################################
	# Constants / global variables
	#################################
	LOGFILE='example.log'
	LOGLEVEL='INFO'

	#################################
	# Functions

	# The initial version
	if [ ! -f .env ]
	then
	export $(cat .env \| xargs)
	fi

	# My favorite from the comments. Thanks @richarddewit & others!
	set -a && source .env && set +a