Thor: "There must be a person on Mastodon that I've favourited more than every other person. I'd like to know who that person is."

fav_user_list.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

from collections import Counter
from mastodon import Mastodon

'''
register app in "Settings -> Development (when in doubt consult your friendly instance admin)"
instantiate Mastodon with given key/secret (=client_cred.secret) and
access token (=access_token.txt) and instance url
'''

m = Mastodon(
    client_id = "client_cred.secret",
    access_token = "access_token.txt",
    api_base_url = "https://octodon.social"
    )

# favourites function only gets the first results, then get all others
fav_first_page = m.favourites()
favs = m.fetch_remaining(fav_first_page)

fav_users = []
for f in favs:
    fav_users.append((f["account"]["username"],
                    f["account"]["display_name"],
                    f["account"]["url"],
                ))

count_users = Counter(fav_users).most_common()

for c in count_users:
    print(c[1], c[0])