Blog Launcher — fetch a single Mastodon toot

This small helper fetches a single public Mastodon status (a "toot") using the instance's public API.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.8+
• Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

Running scripts in this project

This project convention uses uv to run Python scripts because uv automatically activates a discovered .venv for you.

Examples (using uv):

-- Fetch and write a Markdown file with assets (no output-dir required): uv run fetch_toot_thread.py https://mastodon.social/@user/115260608425298248

Or, if you prefer to use a virtualenv manually:

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python fetch_toot_thread.py https://mastodon.social/@user/115260608425298248

Notes

• This script only works for public toots (the instance must return the status via its unauthenticated API).
• fetch_toot_thread.py downloads media into an assets/<status_id>/ folder next to the generated Markdown file and rewrites links accordingly.

Disclaimer

Fellow humans! Please note all of the code here was written by other computers, not humans, though I did spend several hours handholding the computers to get them to produce this.