interactive script for generating persistent clientcred and usercred files for mastodon.py

login.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

# interactive script for generating persistent
# clientcred and usercred files for mastodon.py

from mastodon import Mastodon
from getpass import getpass
import sys

if __name__ == "__main__":
  app = input('app name (shows in web): ')
  url = input('instance url: ')
  email = input('account email: ')
  password = getpass('account password: ')
  password2 = getpass('repeat password: ')
  if password2 != password:
    sys.exit('passwords did not match')
  
  Mastodon.create_app(
    app,
    api_base_url = url,
    to_file = 'clientcred.secret'
  )

  mastodon = Mastodon(
      client_id = 'clientcred.secret',
      api_base_url = url
  )
  mastodon.log_in(
      email,
      password,
      to_file = 'usercred.secret'
  )