Mastodon account note spider (single instance)

spider.py

import requests 

# What you want to search, lower case
SEARCH_TERM = "anthropology"
# Your home instance URL
INSTANCE_URL="https://opalstack.social"
# Number of accounts to search before stop
MAX_OFFSET = 10000

def spider():
  CURRENT_OFFSET = 0
  while CURRENT_OFFSET < MAX_OFFSET:
    r = requests.get(url=f'{INSTANCE_URL}/api/v1/directory?offset={CURRENT_OFFSET}').json()
    for account in r:
      if SEARCH_TERM in account['note'].lower(): print(account['acct'])
    CURRENT_OFFSET += 40

def main():
  spider()

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

To use this file, download it into an OS environment with python 3.7 or above.
Edit the search term.
Execute the file like this,
python spider.py