Prune blank profile followers from a Mastodon account

prune_blank_profile_followers.py

from mastodon import Mastodon

CLIENT_SECRET = "..."
ACCESS_TOKEN = "..."
API_BASE_URL = "https://chaos.social"


mastodon = Mastodon(
    client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET,
    access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN,
    api_base_url=API_BASE_URL,
)

print("Fetching own user profile...")
me = mastodon.me()

print("Fetching all followers...")
followers = mastodon.fetch_remaining(mastodon.account_followers(me["id"]))

print("Fetching all following...")
following = mastodon.fetch_remaining(mastodon.account_following(me["id"]))
following_ids = set(profile["id"] for profile in following)

print("Finding non-mutual followers with no avatar and note...")
prune = [
    profile
    for profile in followers
    if profile["id"] not in following_ids
    and profile["avatar"].endswith("/avatars/original/missing.png")
    and profile["note"] in ("", "<p></p>")
]
prune.sort(key=lambda profile: profile["url"])

print(f"Found {len(prune)} profiles to prune:")
for profile in prune:
    print(f"- {profile['url']}")

print("Removing followers...")
for profile in prune:
    mastodon.account_remove_from_followers(profile["id"])

print("Done!")