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Configuration

In order to use madonctl, you need to specify the instance name or URL, and usually at least provide an account login/password (or a token).

These settings can be passed as command line arguments or environment variables, but the easiest way is to use a configuration file.

Note that every variable from the configration file can also be set with an environment variable (e.g. export MADONCTL_INSTANCE='https://mamot.fr').

Configuration file

The configuration file is usually located in the $HOME/.config/madonctl directory.

We use viper, so you can use the format you prefer between YAML, TOML or JSON. The examples use the YAML format so the configuration file will be named madonctl.yaml.

You can generate a sample configuration file for your settings with

madonctl config dump -i mastodon.social -L username@domain -P password

The output of this command can be redirected to a file:

madonctl config dump -i mstn.io -L email -P passw > madonctl.yaml

If you only provide the Mastodon instance, it will generate a configuration file with an application ID/secret for this instance and you will have to add the user credentials.

If you don't want to use the password or if you have enabled Two-factor authentication, you can use OAuth2 with the oauth2 command, either interactively or non-interactively:

madonctl -i mastodon.social oauth2

The output is similar to the previous config dump command, so you can create your configuration file like this as well:

madonctl -i mastodon.social oauth2 > madonctl.yaml

Note: If don't want to use the tool interactively, check to get-url and code subcommands:

madonctl -i mastodon.social oauth2 get-url
# (Paste the link into your browser...)
madonctl -i mastodon.social code $CODE > config_file.yaml

Note that if you have set up madonctl to use a default theme, you will have to force the output with -o plain to get the example configuration file.

Settings

All the available settings should be displayed with config dump (assuming the safe_mode variable is not set).

Option Description
instance Name of the Mastodon instance (e.g. 'mastodon.social')
app_id Application ID (generated by madonctl)
app_secret Application secret (generated by madonctl)
token User Mastodon token (generated at login time)
login User login (email)
password User password
safe_mode If set to true, the configuration cannot be dumped with config dump
default_visibility Default toots visibillity (Mastodon's default is 'public')
default_output Default output format; one of plain, yaml, json or theme
template_directory The local directory where templates and themes are installed
default_theme Default theme name (e.g. ansi)
color Default color setting (on, off, auto)
verbose Set to true for verbose mode

Note that if a token is set, the login and the password are not necessary.
It is recommended to reuse the same token (and it will be faster).