I hanker after a console Mastodon client, so initially have tinkered a home timeline reader, bit rough so far. Run with ./tl_json.py 1|less -r (the -r on less make the ansi colours work) to get the latest, or ./tl_json.py|less -r to read the current tmp file (/tmp/tl.json).
I imagine a stand alone that you could do likes, and pop-ups in a browser and push I to view jpegs and such, we'll see.
Getting the timeline could have been done with urllib, but what with urllib, urllib2 and urllib3 all being a bit different, I couldn't get the Authorization in the header to work, so I squibbed it and just used curl.
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#!/usr/bin/python3
import json , os , html2text ,sys
#ansi colours
LIGHT_CYAN="\033[1;36m"
YELLOW="\033[1;33m"
BLUE="\033[0;34m"
GREEN="\033[0;32m"
PURPLE="\033[0;35m"
LIGHT_GREEN="\033[1;32m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
RED="\033[0;31m"
NORMAL="\033[0m"
APIKEY="you need your own apikey"
masto_url="curl -k https://mastodon.social/api/v1/timelines/home?limit=40 -H 'Authorization: Bearer "+ APIKEY +" ' >/tmp/tl.json"
if len(sys.argv) > 1 :
print ("Refreshing")
os.system(masto_url)
f = open("/tmp/tl.json")
d = f.read()
dj = json.loads(d)
z = 0
#clean the text
text_maker = html2text.HTML2Text()
text_maker.images_to_alt = True
text_maker.ignore_links = True
while z < 39 :
print (LIGHT_CYAN+str(z)+" "+dj[z]['account']['display_name']+" ["+dj[z]['account']['username']+"]")
print (BLUE+dj[z]['created_at'])
try:
text = dj[z]['content']
print (NORMAL + text_maker.handle(text).strip() )
print (PURPLE+" "+dj[z]['url']+" .")
print (PURPLE+"@"+dj[z]['account']['acct'])
except:
print("")
try: #is there any media ?
y=0
while dj[z]['media_attachments'][y] :
print (BOLD+"\nDescription: < "+ dj[z]['media_attachments'][y]['description']+" >"+NORMAL )
print (PURPLE+" "+ dj[z]['media_attachments'][y]['url']+NORMAL )
y = y + 1
except:
print ("")
# boosted posts
try:
text = dj[z]['reblog']['content']
print (YELLOW + "Boost "+ dj[z]['reblog']['id'] )
print (YELLOW +" "+ dj[z]['reblog']['url'] )
print (YELLOW + text_maker.handle(text).strip() + NORMAL )
print (" ")
except:
print ("")
z=z+1
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