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A Mastodon plugin for Bitlbee
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@kensanata
kensanata Get following only when we know the account_id 
The code used to call mastodon_verify_credentials and immediately
after that it would call mastodon_following. But mastodon_following
just returns if the account_id has not been set and that value is only
set in the mastodon_verify_credentials callback,
mastodon_http_verify_credentials! So now we call mastodon_following
from mastodon_http_verify_credentials and the account_id should always
be set.

Also, fix a bug in mastodon_http_verify_credentials: the account_id is
not simply an int, it's a int64 and sent as a string. This resulted in
the bug of id "12540" being stored as id 5 instead of 12540. With the
wrong id, the wrong followers were being added.
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README.md

Mastodon plugin for Bitlbee

This plugin allows Bitlbee to communicate with Mastodon instances. Mastodon is a free, open-source, decentralized microblogging network. Bitlbee is an IRC server connecting to various other text messaging services. You run Bitlbee and connect to it using an IRC client, then configure Bitlbee to connect to other services, such as a Mastodon instance where you already have an account. The benefit is that you can now use any IRC client you want to connect to Mastodon.

Most of the source code is distributed under the GNU Lesser Public License 2.1.

The build system is distributed under the GNU Public License 2.0 or any later version.

Anything without an obvious license in the file header also uses the GPL 2.0 or any later version.

Usage

Please refer to the Bitlbee help system:

> help mastodon

Alternatively, a snapshot of the entries added to the help system by this plugin are available on the help page.

Build dependencies

  • bitlbee and headers >= 3.5

    If you haven't built Bitlbee yourself you will need to install the dev package, usually bitlbee-dev or bitlbee-devel. If Bitlbee was built from source don't forget to do make install-dev.

  • glib2 and headers => 2.32

    The library itself is usually installed as a dependency of Bitlbee but headers need to be installed separately. In Debian, the package containing them is libglib2.0-dev.

  • autotools (if building from git)

    A bit of an overkill, but it works. If you don't have this package, try looking for autoconf and libtool.

Building and Installing

If building from git you will first need to generate the autotools configuration script and related files by executing the following command:

$ ./autogen.sh

After that (or when building from a tarball) you can build as usual:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

🔥 If your Bitlbee's plugindir is in a non-standard location you need to specify it: ./configure with --with-plugindir=/path/to/plugindir

🔥 If you're installing this plugin in a system where you didn't build your own Bitlbee but installed revision 3.5.1 (e.g. on a Debian system around the end of 2017), you will run into a problem: the plugin will get installed into /usr/lib/bitlbee (plugindir) but the documentation wants to install into /usr/local/share/bitlbee instead of /usr/share/bitlbee (datadir). As you can tell from /usr/lib/pkgconfig/bitlbee.pc, there is no datadir for you. In this situation, try ./configure --prefix=/usr and build and install again.

Debugging

You can enable extra debug output for bitlbee-mastodon by setting the BITLBEE_DEBUG environment variable. This will print all traffic it exchanges with Mastodon servers to STDOUT and there is a lot of it. To get it on your screen run bitlbee in foreground mode:

$ BITLBEE_DEBUG=1 bitlbee -nvD

Then connect with an IRC client as you usually do.

WARNING: there is sensitive information in this debug output, such as auth tokens, your plaintext password and, obviously, your incoming and outgoing messages. Be sure to remove any information you are not willing to share before posting it anywhere.

If you are experiencing crashes please refer to debugging crashes for information on how to get a meaningful backtrace.

Bugs

Please report issues using the Software Wiki. For questions, ping kensanata on irc.oftc.net/#bitlbee.