Tools for interacting directly with a Mastodon instance's database
Project description
mastools - Tools for interacting directly with a Mastodon instance's database
Installation
If you just want to use mastools and not work on the project itself: pip install mastools.
If you have poetry installed, run poetry install.
If not, use pip to install the dependencies mentioned in the [tool.poetry.dependencies] section of pyproject.toml.
Configuration
Make a file named ~/.mastools/config.json like:
{
"host": "localhost",
"database": "mastodon",
"user": "mastodon",
"password": "0xdeadbeef"
}
All mastools components will use this database configuration.
The tools
show-user-changes
Show any new, changed, or deleted accounts that mention URLs in their account info.
This is super common for spammers, who like to stuff their crummy website's info into every single field possible. Suppose you run this hourly and email yourself the results (which will usually be empty unless your instance is very busy). Now you can catch those "https://support-foo-corp/" spammers before they have a chance to post!
For example I run this from a cron job on my instance like:
10 * * * * /home/me/mastools/.venv/bin/show-user-changes
to get an hourly update of changes.
License
Distributed under the terms of the MIT_ license, mastrools is free and open source software.
History
- v0.1.0 - 2019-09-24: First release
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