Sent topic to mastodon

FrankM

I am looking for the possibility to send a new post to Fediverse / Mastodon. With curl I can do that, no problem. The best thing would be to be able to set from which user the post can be sent.

Any tips for me? Plugin?

phenomlab

@FrankM You can specify the uid of the user you want to use in the cURL request. Something like this

    $data = array(
    "cid" => "27",
    "content" => "$body",
    "title" => "$subject",
    "tags" => ["testing"],
    "_uid" => "1"
);

julian

@phenomlab that's for sending content back to NodeBB, no? Mastodon's API may be different.

phenomlab

@julian yes, it was just an example of what that might look like.

FrankM

I have now solved this using a Python script. I start it with a cronjob and check regularly if there is a new post. If so, it is sent to Mastodon. In the script is my UID stored, so that only my posts are sent.

When I have cleaned up the code, I can post it here.

And so looks the result.

FrankM

If anyone can use this, here you go. NodeBB, Redis & Python Script are all running on the same server. Please use the built in ACL to access the Redis database.

user mastodon +hgetall +zrange ~* on >PASSWORD

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