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Account → Get Account Statuses

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Overview

This node operation retrieves the statuses (posts) of a specified Mastodon account. It is useful for scenarios where you want to fetch and analyze the posts made by a particular user on a Mastodon instance, such as monitoring social media activity, aggregating content, or performing sentiment analysis.

Use Case Examples

  1. Fetch all recent statuses of a Mastodon user by providing their account ID and Mastodon instance URL.
  2. Use the node to gather posts from an account for content moderation or archival purposes.

Properties

Name Meaning
Mastodon URL URL of the Mastodon instance to connect to, e.g., https://mastodon.social.
Authentication Type Method to authenticate with the Mastodon instance, either OAuth2 or Access Token.
Account ID ID of the Mastodon account whose statuses are to be retrieved.

Output

JSON

  • json - The JSON output contains the statuses (posts) of the specified Mastodon account as returned by the Mastodon API.

Dependencies

  • Requires authentication credentials for Mastodon API, either OAuth2 or Access Token.

Troubleshooting

  • Ensure the correct Mastodon URL is provided and accessible.
  • Verify that the authentication credentials are valid and have the necessary permissions.
  • If the operation is not implemented error occurs, check that the operation name and resource are correctly specified.
  • For OAuth2 authentication, ensure OAuth2 credentials are selected; for token authentication, ensure token credentials are selected.

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