a tiny cli script that toots mastodon toots with some default settings from the account

conf.py

ACCESS_TOKEN = '<ACCESS_TOKEN>'  # create a new app under: https://INSTANCE_DOMAIN/settings/applications
INSTANCE_DOMAIN = 'mastodon.social'
LANGUAGE = 'en'  # fallback language

doToot.py

import requests  # pip install requests
import conf

# API endpoint for Mastodon
# eg <instance_name>.mastodon.social / mastodon.social
base_url = "https://{}/api/v1/".format(conf.INSTANCE_DOMAIN)

# Authentication details
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + conf.ACCESS_TOKEN}

# Get current visibility setting
response = requests.get(base_url + "accounts/verify_credentials", headers=headers)
visibility = 'private'  # fallback
language = ''
if response.status_code == 200:
    visibility = response.json()["source"]["privacy"]
    language = response.json()["source"]["language"]  # iso2

    # when empty string, settings are set to use "interface" language by default
    if language == '':
        language = conf.LANGUAGE
else:
    print("Error retrieving visibility settings.")

# show toot settings
print('visibility:', visibility)
print('language:', language)

# Publish Toot
toot_text = input('enter toot: ')
response = requests.post(base_url + "statuses", headers=headers, json={
    "status": toot_text,
    "visibility": visibility,
    'language': language
})

# Check if the publication was successful
if response.status_code == 200:
    print("Toot published!")
else:
    print("Error publishing Toot.")