Working with the Hometown fork

[samplereality]

I'm on a Mastodon instance running the Hometown fork, and am getting this error:

raise MastodonVersionError("Version check failed (Need version " + version + ")")
mastodon.errors.MastodonVersionError: Version check failed (Need version 2.4.3)

This makes me wonder if the mastodon_digest works with Hometown. My instance runs Hometown v1.0.5+3.5.2 (i.e Hometown 1.0.5 and Mastodon 3.5.2)

[hodgesmr]

Under the hood, I'm utilizing Mastodon.py for API access. It documents:

On Mastodon mainline, you can, pass datetime objects as IDs when fetching posts, since the IDs used are Snowflake IDs and dates can be approximately converted to those. This is guaranteed to work on mainline Mastodon servers and very likely to work on all forks, but will not work on other servers implementing the API, like Pleroma, Misskey or Gotosocial.

So, I'm not sure whether Hometown is supported. That said, I've just pushed an update that changes two things of potential relevance:

• I've update the Mastodon.py requirement from 1.7 to 1.8
• I change how the environment variable are sourced. This may be relevant because when I had errant quote marks in my MASTODON_BASE_URL, I got the same error you reported.

Take a look and see if any of that helps.

[samplereality]

Yes--the update works. I was already running Mastodon.py 1.8, so the fix must have been with how the environmental variables were sourced. Thanks!