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Mastotool "Atom"

After a while, you need to be able to back up your Mastodon content, and there is currently no way to get anything except your follow/block/mute lists.

This tool downloads all your posts it finds via the public Atom feed. Sadly, these are not all of your posts, due to a bug. You will have to resort to screen scraping in order to do this. A better alternative would be to use the Mastodon API to get all of your toots (thus requiring a login). Mastodon Backup does that, for example.

The tool allows you to turn the aggregated Atom feed into a web page. The web page will not contain any media attachments, avatars or any of that. Mark's Mastotool mirrors media.

If you still want to give it a try: you need Python 3 and lxml:

% sudo pip3 install lxml

Usage:

% ./Mastotool.py -help
Usage: Mastotool.py [COMMAND]...\n%s
--backup URL      Backup from URL 'http://example.com/@username'
--load FILENAME   Load from Atom file
--display         Display all posts as text
--html            Display all posts as html
--save FILENAME   Save to Atom file

To make a backup:

% ./Mastotool.py --backup http://example.com/@username --save username.atom

To display that backup:

% ./Mastotool.py --load username.atom --display

To generate a HTML file:

% ./Mastotool.py --load username.atom --html > username.html

Please only use this on your own data.

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