Some simple code to fetch toots from the Mastodon API

musodon_toots.rs

use tokio;
use reqwest;
use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Account {
    username: String
}

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
struct Status {
    id: String,
    content: String,
    created_at: String,
    account: Account
}

#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Debug)]
struct APIResponse {
    statuses: Vec<Status>,
}

async fn mastodon_search(
    client: &reqwest::Client,
    token: &str,
    query: &str,
) -> Result<APIResponse, reqwest::Error> {
    let url = "https://mastodon.social/api/v2/search";
    let params = [("q", query), ("type", "statuses"), ("limit", "5")];

    let response = client
        .get(url)
        .bearer_auth(&token)
        .query(&params)
        .send()
        .await?;

    Ok(response.json::<APIResponse>().await?)
}


#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), reqwest::Error> {
    let client = reqwest::Client::new();
    let token = "<a mastodon token>";
    let query = "musodon";
    let body = mastodon_search(&client, &token, &query).await?;

    for s in body.statuses.iter().collect::<Vec<&Status>>() {
        let s: &Status = s;
        println!("{} {}\n{}\n", s.account.username, s.created_at, s.content);
    }

    Ok(())
}