Mastodon Streamer

This project is used to collect Mastodon data from different servers and save them as gzip file at the end of the day.

Project Structure

• Backend: A flask application that leverages the [mastodonpy) to retrieve data and manipulate the data.

Packages

• Mastodon.py

How to run the project.

To run the project, you have to clone the project. Edit the mastodon_servers.json and add as below json.

  {
   "mastodon_servers":[
     {
       "access_token":"XXXX",
       "api_base_url":"https://mastodon.social"
     },
     {
       "access_token":"XXX",
       "api_base_url":"https://mastodon.cloud"
     },
     {
       "access_token":"XXX",
       "api_base_url":"https://genomic.social"
     }  
   ]
  }

Then,

1. Install necessary pip packages. Run pip install -r requirements.txt.
2. Run your flask app by running flask run --port <desired_port_number>.