Converts a toot of Mastodon to HTML

toot2html.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'open-uri'
require 'json'
require 'time'

toot_url = ARGV[0]
toot_url =~ %r|^https://(.+?)/@(.*?)/(\d+)$|
host = $1
username = $2
status_id = $3
if host.nil? || username.nil? || status_id.nil?
  STDERR.puts "usage: #{$0} https://mastodon.example.com/@username/status_id"
  exit 1
end

json = open("https://#{host}/api/v1/statuses/#{status_id}").read
status = JSON.parse(json)
avatar_static = status['account']['avatar_static']
created_at = Time.parse(status['created_at']).localtime.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M %Z')
account_url = status['account']['url']
display_name = status['account']['display_name']
content = status['content']

html = <<EOT
<div style="padding:16px 8px;overflow:hidden;border-top:1px solid #888;">
  <img src="#{avatar_static}" style="float:left;margin-right:8px;width:48px;height:48px;">
  <div style="font-size: 90%; float:right;color:#888;">
    <a style="color:#888; font-weight: bold;" href="#{toot_url}" target="_blank">#{created_at}</a>
  </div>
  <span style="font-size: 90%; font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: #888;" href="#{account_url}" target="_blank">#{display_name}</a></span>
  <span style="font-size: 90%; color:#888;">@#{username}</span>
  #{content}
</div>
EOT

puts html