Feature request: Mastodon API

Jxck-S / plane-notify

Notify if a selected plane has taken off or landed using ADS-B data. Compares older data to newer data to determine if a landing or takeoff has occurred. As well as nav modes, emergency squawk and resolution advisory notifications. Can output to Twitter, Discord, Mastodon, and Telegram

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Feature request: Mastodon API #88

Closed eichkat3r closed 1 year ago

eichkat3r commented 1 year ago

The fediverse is gaining a lot of attention lately, with microblogging services like Mastodon and Pleroma being recognized as potential Twitter alternatives. Hence, it would be cool to connect plane-notify to the fedi as well.

For the sake of simplicity, I'd suggest to use Mastodon.py (https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/), as it is very simple to set up.

What needs to be done to accomplish this:

[ ] Include Mastodon API key as a configurable value
[ ] Create defMastodon module that leverages Mastodon.py to post plane information on the fediverse, similar to way it was posted on Twitter
[ ] Integrate the defMastodon module such that it can be used by plane-notify (I currently don't know how this is done)
[ ] Setup instructions
[ ] Add Mastodon.py to requirements (Pipfile)

hycday commented 1 year ago

even more relevant, considering that @Elonjet is now suspended on Twitter :P

shamoons commented 1 year ago

What about making it ActivityPub instead? So it'll work across the entire #fediverse

eichkat3r commented 1 year ago

What about making it ActivityPub instead? So it'll work across the entire #fediverse

I proposed the Mastodon frontend for a pragmatic reason, as using Mastodon.py to create a toot is essentially 4 lines of code. Also, Mastodon has decent interoperability with other platforms on the fediverse, such as friendica, pleroma or misskey. But I agree, going for ActivityPub directly would be a better choice with respect to generalization to a broader set of platforms on the fediverse. However, creating a generic ActivityPub service implies more effort to develop and test. My suggestion would be to open a separate issue.

Jxck-S commented 1 year ago

I'll accept #90 soon and will review it. I actually had not coded this already so thanks! I was manually posting there. Can someone message me in my Discord and explain how ActivityPub/Fediverse would work? New to the decentralized platforms

Jxck-S commented 1 year ago

Mastodon was implemented a while ago.