Resources for Fediverse bots

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General resources
Mastodon
Pleroma
- Frameworks and libraries
- Tools

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

General resources¶

Be sure to also join the Botmakers Slack group, and follow Botwiki-related fediverse accounts:

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¶

The Coding Train Mastodon bot video tutorial series (by Daniel Shiffman)
Easy guide to building Mastodon bots (by Terence Eden)
Make a Mastodon Bot on AWS Free Tier (by Mathew Duggan)
Tracery Mastodon Bot (by Byron Hulcher)
see also: open-source Mastodon bots

Frameworks and libraries¶

node.js¶

node-mastodon, a fork of the twit library for the Mastodon API (github.com)

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¶

botsin.space (interview with the creator)
Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet!: This site will help you make a Mastobot, much like CBDQ for Twitter bots
Register a Mastodon App: some instances may not provide an API token, this tool will help you generate it (tinysubversions.com)

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