This app generates a set of webpages consisting of all your saved bookmarks and also the associated replies (and what your bookmark replied to if applicable)

To run, you need python 3.12 (possibly other versions may work but not tested)

1. Create virtual env and install dependancies:

python -m venv ./venv
. ./bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Set environment Copy .env.dist to .env

Create a Mastodon access token

• Login to your Mastodon instance, ie. https://mastodon.social
• Go to Preference -> Development, click on New Application.
• Enter the name of the Application and modify the scopes required.
  Recommended scopes are:
  read:bookmarks
  read:statuses
• Submit it then click on the name of the Application you've just created.
  You'll be able to copy the Access Token here.

Copy the .env.dist file to .env

Edit the .env file and set the MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN to your generated token

Run the application using:

python app.py [--use-local] [-full-refresh]

By default, the app will download and just update any new favourites saved since the last update.

You can use the following flags to adjust the behaviour.

use-local : Just refreshes the pages using the internal cache full-refresh : Does a full refresh of all the threads

The application will create a couple of folders:

• cache - this contains the cached json data from Mastodon
• static_site - this contains the generated static site

To view the static site, you probably want to deploy it to a http server.

This is outside the scope of this site BUT if you want to preview it locally, you can run the build in python http.server:

cd static_site
python -m http.server

Then access the site through your browser on http://localhost:8000