Mastodon Favorites feed, mastodon client script, refactor #14
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…, timezones), add helpful script for creating minimum-permission mastodon client
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| from config import get_config |
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Moved the config loading here so I could use it in create_mastodon_client.
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| # Mastodon | ||
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| client_file = param['mastodon']['client_id_file'] |
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Added some sanity checks here because I had a typo in my config file that was tricky to debug.
| access_token=param['mastodon']['access_token_file'] | ||
| client_id=client_file, | ||
| access_token=access_token_file, | ||
| api_base_url=mastodon_url |
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Added this after discovering it refused to work for anything but the flagship instance.
| '✰ : ' + str(toot['favourites_count']) + '</div></blockquote>' | ||
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| toot['created_at'] = datetime.datetime.strptime(toot['created_at'], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ') | ||
| if isinstance(toot['created_at'], str): |
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In the most recent Mastodon.py, created_at is already a datetime, so this conversion is only needed with older versions of the client.
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| text = BeautifulSoup(toot['content'], "html.parser").text | ||
| pubdate = toot['created_at'] | ||
| if not pubdate.tzinfo: |
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Similarly, the created_at datetime already has timezone info. I'm not entirely sure which timezone is used, but I suspect it is whatever my user account's preference is set to.
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| if __name__ == "__main__": | ||
| app.run() | ||
| app.run(use_reloader=True) |
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This was helpful during dev. I haven't deployed it, but I suspect it won't have any effect under gunicorn or whatever.
| password = getpass("Password (not shown and not saved):") | ||
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| # Log in - either every time, or use persisted | ||
| mastodon.log_in(user_email, password, to_file=mast_cfg['access_token_file'], scopes=['read']) |
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This app doesn't need write or follow permissions, so this asks only for read access. It looks a little less scary on the authorized apps page...
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| @app.route('/toot_favorites') | ||
| def toot_favorites_feed(): |
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And this was what started me on this whole thing.
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thanks again @georgedorn 👍 |
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I found your project today when searching again for an app that read Mastodon and outputted RSS; I've specifically been looking for a way to generate an RSS feed of my favorites, so I added that.
Along the way, I fixed a couple of bugs in a backwards-compatible way:
toot['created_at']is already a datetime in the current version of Mastodon.pyCreating a mastodon app and credentials is non-trivial, especially for users of instances other than the flagship. After figuring the process out, I wrote a simple script (
create_mastodon_client.py) to simplify the process; it relies on values inconfig.ymlso I updated the README accordingly.Feel free to ignore this; I'm just sending you this PR as a courtesy and a thank-you for implementing 95% of what I wanted.