simple scripts for Mastodon API

all_accounts.py

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+from time import sleep
+from mastodon import Mastodon
+
+with open('token.txt','r') as token:
+	mastodon = Mastodon(access_token=token.read(),api_base_url="https://post.lurk.org/")
+
+# print all accounts in post.lurk.org/
+
+i = 1
+while True:
+    account = mastodon.account(i)
+    print(account, account['display_name'], "\n")
+    i = i +1
+    sleep(1)

search.py

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+from mastodon import Mastodon
+
+with open('token.txt','r') as token: # getting token from toke.txt file
+	mastodon = Mastodon(access_token=token.read(),api_base_url="https://post.lurk.org/")
+
+	# search(q, resolve=False) method of mastodon.Mastodon.Mastodon instance
+	#     Fetch matching hashtags, accounts and statuses. Will search federated
+	#     instances if resolve is True. Full-text search is only enabled if
+	#     the instance supports it, and is restricted to statuses the logged-in
+	#     user wrote or was mentioned in.
+
+# search
+searchresult = mastodon.search("cat")
+
+print(searchresult.keys()) #.search returns a dictionary w/ they keys ['accounts', 'hashtags', 'statuses']
+
+for cat_account in searchresult['accounts']: # loop through all accounts
+	print(cat_account)
+	print(cat_account['username'], cat_account['url'])

toot.py

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+from mastodon import Mastodon
+
+with open('token.txt','r') as token:
+	mastodon = Mastodon(access_token=token.read(),api_base_url="https://post.lurk.org/")
+
+mycreds = mastodon.account_verify_credentials() #dictionary with my user info
+print(mycreds) 
+myname = mycreds['display_name'] 
+
+toot_text = '{} whishes you a good hello world'.format(myname)
+mastodon.toot(toot_text)
+print(toot_text)