Build your own Mastodon client

Tutorial – Mastodon

Article from Issue 230/2020
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Creating your own clients to interact with your friends in the Fediverse is easy. A bit of Python and an off-the-shelf module will do the trick.

Although there are plenty of Mastodon [1] clients out there (as we saw in the prior installment [2]), sometimes you just want that something special to satisfy your needs. Fortunately, Mastodon's API is open and well-organized and there is a Python wrapper [3] that makes it even easier.

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First, you need to install the Mastodon.py wrapper. The easiest way to do this is by using pip:

pip install Mastodon.py

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