Mastodon Streamer

This project uses Mastodon.py to collect data from different Mastodon servers and save them to json files by date.

quick start.

• get conda installed if not https://docs.anaconda.com/free/miniconda/#quick-command-line-install
• create conda venv
  • conda env create -p ./<myvenv> -f environment.yml
  • conda activate ./<myvenv>
  • pip install -r requirements.txt
• make a copy of config.yml.template and mastodon_servers.json.template, fill out the contents accordingly.
• run
  • python streamer.py saves to {base_folder}/{yyyy-mm}/{domain}_{yyyy-mm-dd}.json
  • python stream_new_users.py saves to {base_folder}/{yyyy-mm}/new_users/{domain}_{yyyy-mm-dd}_new_users.json

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*optional backup bash script uses python package yq that wraps around jq

sudo apt-get install jq pip3 install yq