cli client for mastodon social media platform

since we don't provide pre-built binaries, having Go installed on your machine is required. Follow this link: https://go.dev/dl/

0. Clone repo to your local machine (fork repo if you intend to be a Contributor!)

   git clone https://github.com/socraticDevBlog/mastodonctl.git

1. Install project

   go install

2. Build project

   go build .

3. Add current project directory to your user PATH

   export PATH="$PATH:${GOPATH}/bin/mastodonctl"

4. (required) in order for the binary to be able to read configuration file

   current_directory=`pwd`
   export CONFIG_FILEPATH=${current_directory}/conf.json

mastodonctl is now available as CLI tool! 🚀

As an experienced user, you may want to customize your commandline-tool.

This is possible by editing conf.json file

* requires auth token for the server used

Will query Mastadon server's API for user infos based on their username

populate AuthToken field in conf.json configuration file

⚠️ never commit conf.json file to git version control

try out a few commands to see if everything is working properly

go run . userinfos -username dave

Expect:

Will query Mastadon server's public API for latest post tagged with a specific hashtag

go run . hashtag -name cat

Expect:

• mastovue
• mastoview

• my .profile file

# golang configs
export GOPATH=$HOME/go
export PATH="$GOPATH/bin:$PATH"

# mastodonctl
# a valid conf.json file located beside mastodonctl binary
export CONFIG_FILEPATH="$GOPATH/bin/conf.json"