Special character &

[EBendinelli]

I've noticed the character & is being transformed to & when posted to Mastodon (see here). I guess this comes from how the text scrapped from tweets is considered (HTML instead of text).

Any idea how to fix that?

[yogthos]

Might be getting parsed out as & from the source as well. Can you try adding a formatter here:

mastodon-bot/mastodon-bot.cljs

Line 100 in ce87924

(clj->js (merge {:status (-> status-text resolve-urls set-signature)}

You could add a new function that'll do formatting:

(defn format-text [text]
  (string/replace text #"&" "and"))

and then change {:status (-> status-text resolve-urls set-signature)} to {:status (-> status-text resolve-urls format-text set-signature)} to post process the status text it's posted.

[jerger]

Any merge request in this direction would be very welcome :-)
Pls use our gitlab repo https://gitlab.com/yogthos/mastodon-bot as point of start.