Say hello to `threadcat`! 🧶🐱
It's a little Rust tool which takes the URL to a Mastodon thread, and converts it to a Markdown file. It also downloads all attached media files (and their alt texts)!
That way, it's really easy to get a "first draft" for a blog post from a thread you wrote!
Installation: `cargo install threadcat`
I've been hacking on it a lot this week, with my silly human hands, and it's been a lot of fun!
Right now, it can only read threads from Mastodon, and only output Markdown, but both directions could be extended.
To try it out, I've been using it to publish one blog post each day this week – you might have noticed! :D
Today's post is about DIY soft drinks! It's from when I started making my own cola and orange soda, and invented an "almond soda" that tastes like marzipan! :)
Still thinking about what ingredients would go in a DIY Mountain Dew, or a DIY Fassbrause…
@blinry may I talk to you about @Westfuchs
https://media.ccc.de/v/dhcp-2024-45-openmate-1-0-auf-dem-weg-zum-open-source-getrnk
@c_merriweather @hmnd @blinry For carbonated water I usually go for a SodaStream machine (or similar non-branded device).
Du you put the baking soda & citric acid in the bottle and seal it?
@Westfuchs @hmnd @blinry Mix baking soda into glass of water, add citric acid, stir and watch the bubbles. Adjust ingredients, when it tastes neither acidic or base, drink. Adding lemon or lime juice makes it a refreshing drink.
(I got the idea after thinking about the "volcanoes" we built in elementary school: Take a glass bottle with small neck-
we used a glass coca-cola bottle in the 1960s. Build a papier mache mountain around it. Using a funnel, pour baking soda inside. Then pour vinegar with red food coloring in the bottle, and watch the "lava" pour down the sides of the "mountain.")
@blinry https://youtu.be/TDkH3EbWTYc
someone reverse engineered the coca cola recipe a few months ago, his recipe might interest you.
@blinry Nice❣️
But till now I got a thread containing just one toot, and this output:
"Note: Thread might be cut off due to Mastodon's API limits. Provide an ACCESS_TOKEN via environment variable to make authenticated requests."
How to solve this?
@harbeider I wrote a section about that in the README: https://codeberg.org/blinry/threadcat
Please check if that explanation helps – if not, feel free to ask again, and maybe I can improve the description! :)
@blinry thanks for building this! 💙
Can I ask what prompted this tool? Did you want local copies of "all things about a mast post and replies", so as to allow for an offline thought curation? Or other goals? 👀
Asking as I had similar thoughts of need - and saw this on fedi! Thanks again! 🙇♀️
@nicksilkey Mainly wanting to quickly put together a blogpost version of the random threads I wrote!
It's fun: "Microblogging" an event for example, comes easy to me. And then, when you're ready, you can pull that content together and publish it on the blog. :)
Correct me if I am wrong:
You wrote a tool that enables people to download complete Mastodon threads from other participants / on other instances?
So that's NOT made for collecting OWN content, but for other people's content?
One question:
Isn't that called STEALING?
is it fedi standard or mastodon exclusive?
@blinry Does it mean that it's time for me to say that I've created a small CLI tool in PHP to list your threads in HTML files?
https://codeberg.org/pierstoval/mastothreads
I mean, it's still a prototype, but it's definitely worth having IMO.
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