mastools

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mastools

A bunch of tools

Trends

See https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/admin/trends/ There are three trend types:

• Links
• Statuses
• Tags

To see how it works look at the out from git grep "manage_taxonomies" and git grep "Admin::Trends".

NOTE: I personally disable links on servers I admin. There is too much risk from a bad/malicious link.

Handling Permissions

It's never a good idea to have a lot of credentials floating around with broad permissions. To set this up soundly:

• Create a "Trend Editor" role that can ONLY "Manage Taxonomies"
• Create a service account and grant it that role
• Login to this account, setup 2FA, etc.
• Create a new application on the service account
  • Revoke all permissions except "admin:write". Unfortunately Mastodon doesn't have a fine grained permission for "admin:trends".
• Copy the access token into a secret manager.
• Pass the token to this application when calling methods