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Don't Tweet, Toot: Understanding Mastodon and the Federated Social Network

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General overviews of Mastodon

• Join Mastodon (official, general-purpose)
• Resources for Mastodon Newbies (large list of links to resources)
• Toot How-To: Intro to Mastodon

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Getting credentials for the Mastodon API with Mastodon.py, step by step

Making a bot? Making a bot in Python? Making a bot in Python that uses the Mastodon API? If so, chances are you need to get some credentials. Here's how I did it!

(The following tutorial uses Python 2.7, but if you're using Python 3+ everything should work substantially the same.)

Mastodon.py authentication

I just started using it, but it looks like Mastodon.py is a pretty great library for working with the Mastodon API! However, all of the authentication examples use static files to store credentials, which I don't like—I'm afraid I'll accidentally push them to Github. I like to keep my authentication as close to the actual command that runs the program as possible, so usually I pass them on the command line to the script running my bot. To do this, I need to get the appropriate credentials on their own, as separate strings that I can cut and paste.

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// simplest possible express app
var http = require('http');
var express = require('express');

var app = express();

// while your program is running, requests to "/test" will trigger this
// callback function.
app.get("/test", function(req, res) {
    // the "req" parameter is an object that gives you access to data in the