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Getting credentials for the Mastodon API with Mastodon.py, step by step

Making a bot? Making a bot in Python? Making a bot in Python that uses the Mastodon API? If so, chances are you need to get some credentials. Here's how I did it!

(The following tutorial uses Python 2.7, but if you're using Python 3+ everything should work substantially the same.)

Mastodon.py authentication

I just started using it, but it looks like Mastodon.py is a pretty great library for working with the Mastodon API! However, all of the authentication examples use static files to store credentials, which I don't like—I'm afraid I'll accidentally push them to Github. I like to keep my authentication as close to the actual command that runs the program as possible, so usually I pass them on the command line to the script running my bot. To do this, I need to get the appropriate credentials on their own, as separate strings that I can cut and paste.

Making a PDF + Bootable ISO Hybrid Polyglot

If you've not seen my résumé, that is what this post is about, and you should probably look at it first to get an idea of what's happening.

A Tale of Two Files

PDF and ISO9660 are two very different file formats. PDF is actually a surprisingly human-readable (but, sadly, not very human-writable) plain-text format, technically descended from PostScript. PDF is not very forgiving on changes, as it stores tables of offsets to various elements, so it is very difficult to insert or remove content manually without going through a robust PDF manipulation library.

ISO9660 is a disk filesystem, meant to be written once and read many times on many different kinds of hardware. As it is sector-based, it expects data structures to be at particular absolute offsets.

⌚ Updated 4 July 2016

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	import json
	import requests
	from datetime import datetime
	import dateutil.relativedelta
	import os

	mr_username = ''
	mr_pass = ''
	api_url = 'https://www.muckrock.com/api_v1/'

	from glob import glob
	import os
	import json
	import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


	# you'll want to change this path
	filepath = r"C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\saves\HermitCraftIV\stats\*.json"
	HermitUUIDs = {'03c9c1dc63004a36a25e079d18639d41' : 'EvilXisuma', '05e88dce714d4218be77fade8b5dfa3c' : 'Docm77', '18a9faba1977469b8156ed0f1a3c765b' : 'iskall69', '21ef397c3a764eb7aa17a99d3fc658e2' : 'Xisuma', '24453bad63a448138a0c4ecd77f2f696' : 'truesymmetry', '2dd0cc3b08254c3ebd993bf07ef27447' : 'Renthedog', '2f72315024de44ffaeee87c75f7c7a9e' : 'VintageBeef', '3169d985081f4392be6a96cbfba7d9fb' : 'PythonGB', '350c312e4eb849bfa1b68decb3a16f52' : 'Jessassin', '3f28c55908984be19f209fd37ca9cd22' : 'iJevin', '530d0bbfdb2e4384bbb2df14436587d2' : 'ImpulseCam', '53bae456dbbb4c2f8c799e8ec26c8382' : 'joehillssays', '5f15204a490649a9932bce1ad9796ab0' : 'zueljin', '62fec5a318964beb94e036e34898c787' : 'Tango', '641f705aaf484942b1ed882af2070046' : 'Biffa001', '6cdc398bfda7412fa22a16a72021d1bf' : 'WellsGlazes', '7ed3587be65646

	"""Provide high-level UDP endpoints for asyncio.

	Example:

	async def main():

	# Create a local UDP enpoint
	local = await open_local_endpoint('localhost', 8888)

	# Create a remote UDP enpoint, pointing to the first one

	#!/usr/bin/env python3.5

	import asyncio
	from collections import namedtuple
	import functools
	import random

	Message = namedtuple('Message', 'prefix command params')
	Prefix = namedtuple('Prefix', 'nick ident host')

	from discord.ext import commands

	description = '''An example bot to showcase the discord.ext.commands extension
	module.

	There are a number of utility commands being showcased here.'''

	# this specifies what extensions to load when the bot starts up
	startup_extensions = ["members", "rng"]

	##
	# This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download
	# Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
	##

	require 'msf/core'

	class Metasploit3 < Msf::Exploit::Remote
	Rank = ExcellentRanking