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downloaded all my toots with #mastodonpy: gonna train a neural net on myself and recursively self-improve until I get the perfect toot
@tomharris I've been wondering about a way to backup/export my toots. How does that thing work?
@ultimape @tomharris
Haven't tried it yet, but on the Mastodon API, under Accounts [0], getting an account's statuses is supported via
GET /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses
I don't know if there's an automated way to do that though.
[0] https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-the-API/API.md#accounts
@Pabo @ultimape
I used the python wrapper for the api here: https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
First I created an API instance according to the example there, then I just repeatedly called the Mastodon.account_statuses method with successively lower max_id, adding any new toots to a dict (of the form {toot_id : toot_text}) as I went. Then I wrote the toots to a file.
There's probably a better way to do it, but this naive method worked for me.