Resources for Fediverse bots

Fediverse is a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”. It is a common, informal name for a somewhat broad federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages.

Wikipedia

Mastodon

Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers with microblogging features similar to Twitter. (Wikipedia)

Tutorials and starter projects

node.js
Python
Java
Other

See also: open-source Mastodon bots

Frameworks and libraries

node.js
Python
  • Mastodon.py: Python wrapper for the Mastodon API (github.com)
  • polybot: a framework for making social media bots for multiple networks (github.com)
  • mastodon-ebooks
  • botfriend: Manage a lot of creative bots that post to a lot of different services.
Ruby
  • mastodon-api: Ruby interface for the Mastodon API (github.com)

Tools

Pleroma

Pleroma is a federated social networking platform, compatible with GNU social, Mastodon and other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations.

Frameworks and libraries


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