Hello World :)
I am pleased to present you a small project that I have been working on these last weeks:
MARL (Mastodon Archive Reader Lite) is a small web app that allows you to explore in detail the content of your Mastodon posts archive, including attached files (images, videos, sounds), and with different search options.
🙏 Boosts welcome! 🙏
(More info in the post below 👇)
Attached: 1 image Salut les Mastonautes ! :) J'ai le plaisir de vous présenter un petit projet sur lequel j'ai travaillé ces dernières semaines: MARL (Mastodon Archive Reader Lite) est une petite web app qui vous permet d'explorer en détail le contenu de votre archive de posts Mastodon, fichiers joints inclus (images, vidéos, sons), avec différentes options de recherche. https://github.com/s427/MARL 🙏 Boosts appréciés! 🙏 (Plus d'infos dans le post suivant 👇) #Mastodon #archive
Important new feature in MARL: you can now load multiple archive files at once, in which case posts from different accounts are displayed in a single list (with a different color indicator for each account). Each profile is displayed as a tab. A new filter group allows you to limit the search to an author.
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If you load multiple archives from the same account (exported at different dates), duplicates are removed, provided that their contents are strictly identical. If two posts with the same ID have the slightest difference (in their content or metadata), both versions are shown. And then it's up to you to find the differences. ;)
The "non-exact duplicates" filter allows to show only those posts.
Latest update, "server mode": you can now host MARL on your own web server to make your archive publicly viewable. A script is provided to delete private posts from the archive *before* you make it public.
This mode can also be used on a local web server to more easily browse very large archives, or just to automatically load some archives in MARL. See "server-mode.md" on the project page for more information.
MARL keeps evolving, even though I don't always announce it here. 😅
Among the latest new features:
- polls display;
- two new options to simplify the app layout;
- show the number of likes or shares on a post, as well as its language;
- new filters: number of likes or shares; date or time of the post;
- irrelevant filters are automatically hidden;
- conversation view (threads) (limited by the data present in the archive).
As a reminder, the project page:
https://github.com/s427/MARL
And I recently added a demo page (with posts from my own archive) in case people would like to test it but don't have an archive immediately available:
https://marl.s427.ch
@s427 Lookit there, it's working! Thank you (oh, but thank you) for writing this.
(Pics don't seem to load, though; is there a config I need to poke or something?)
@isocat 620 Mo, that's a healthy baby! My archive is merely 244. ^^
In my tests the media files above 25Mo fail to load in Firefox, but they do load in Chrome. So not browsers are equal in that regard. I suspect the amount of RAM available also plays a role (possibly the OS as well).
Could you be more specific about what happens with your pics? What do you see? Empty rectangle, broken image, something else? Can you maybe send me a screenshot so I'm sure we're on the same page?
This looks amazing!
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