Mastodon tools

findadmins.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from mastodon import Mastodon
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import urllib

myinstance = "somewhere.social"
m = Mastodon(client_id="…", client_secret="…", access_token="…", api_base_url="https://"+myinstance)

myid = m.account_verify_credentials()['id']
admins = {}
accounts = m.account_following(myid)
while accounts is not None:
    for a in accounts:
        name = a['acct']
        aid = a['id']
        if '@' in name:
            instance = name.split('@')[-1]
        else:
            instance = myinstance
        if instance in admins: continue
        print("Looking up admin for", instance)
        try:
            soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib.request.urlopen("https://"+instance+"/about/more"))
        except urllib.error.URLError:
            soup = None
        if soup is None:
            admins[instance] = None
            continue
        owner = soup.find(class_="owner")
        if owner is None:
            admins[instance] = None
            continue
        adminusername = owner.find(class_="username")
        if adminusername is None:
            admins[instance] = None
            continue
        adminusername = adminusername.string.strip('@')+'@'+instance
        print("Admin is", adminusername)
        if name == adminusername:
            admin = a
        else:
            for admin in m.account_search(adminusername):
                if admin['acct'] == adminusername: break
        admins[instance] = admin
    accounts = m.fetch_next(accounts)

oldaccounts.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from mastodon import Mastodon
import datetime

myinstance = "somewhere.social"
m = Mastodon(client_id="…", client_secret="…", access_token="…", api_base_url="https://"+myinstance)
timeago = datetime.timedelta(days=30)

now = datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc)
monthago = now-timeago
myid = m.account_verify_credentials()['id']
following = m.fetch_remaining(m.account_following(myid))
for a in following:
    statuses = m.account_statuses(a['id'], limit=1)
    if len(statuses) == 0:
        print(a['acct'], "never posted")
    if statuses[0]['created_at'] < monthago:
        print(a['acct'], "last posted", (now-statuses[0]['created_at']).days, "ago")