7 days trial then $30.00/month - No credit card required now
Mastodon Explorer
7 days trial then $30.00/month - No credit card required now
Scrape data from Mastodon Social websites
Welcome to Mastodon Scraper
About Mastodon (social network)
Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social networking services. It has microblogging features similar to Twitter, which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as instances, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy policy, privacy options, and content moderation policies.[6][7][8]
About This Actor
Scrape data from Mastadon, the decentralized alternative to Twitter. Extract information on users, their "toots," likes, and favorites or scrape data based on a search query, such as a hashtag or a keyword. Export accumulated data into a variety of database formats.
Tutorial
By default the actor will scrape posts from trend section of the mastodon.social
portal (eg: https://mastodon.social/explore)
Example 1: Portal
To scrape from other portal, use portal
parameter and specify the website/portal hostname :
1{ 2 "portal": "fosstodon.org" 3}
Example 2: Scraping #hastag
1{ 2 "query": "#microsoft" 3}
Notes : the # character is optional
Example 3: Scraping user posts
1{ 2 "query": "@username" 3}
Example 4: Using URL as input
When you specify URL for query
parameter, it will automatically parsed with appropriate parameter :
1{ 2 "query": "https://fosstodon.org/@Joefree/media" 3}
Example 5: Number of results
By default you will only get 5 posts. Use limit
parameter to get more results.
1{ 2 "query": "microsoft", 3 "limit": 100 4}
Output Examples
1{ 2 "account": { 3 "acct": "Gargron", 4 "avatar": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/dc4286ceb8fab734.jpg", 5 "avatar_static": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/dc4286ceb8fab734.jpg", 6 "created_at": "2016-03-16T00:00:00.000Z", 7 "discoverable": true, 8 "display_name": "Eugen Rochko", 9 "fields": [ 10 { 11 "name": "Patreon", 12 "value": "<a href=\"https://www.patreon.com/mastodon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer me\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"\">patreon.com/mastodon</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>" 13 }, 14 { 15 "name": "GitHub", 16 "value": "<a href=\"https://github.com/Gargron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer me\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">github.com/Gargron</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a>", 17 "verified_at": "2023-02-07T23:24:40.347+00:00" 18 } 19 ], 20 "followers_count": 312471, 21 "following_count": 395, 22 "header": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/headers/000/000/001/original/3b91c9965d00888b.jpeg", 23 "header_static": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/headers/000/000/001/original/3b91c9965d00888b.jpeg", 24 "id": "1", 25 "last_status_at": "2023-04-28", 26 "note": "<p>Founder, CEO and lead developer <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>Mastodon</span></a></span>, Germany.</p>", 27 "statuses_count": 73541, 28 "url": "https://mastodon.social/@Gargron", 29 "username": "Gargron" 30 }, 31 "application": { 32 "name": "Web" 33 }, 34 "card": { 35 "blurhash": "U34x7la*9EoYxNfQayfR4mj:?cWIajfRj[a{", 36 "description": "Learn how to get verified on Mastodon", 37 "height": 267, 38 "image": "https://files.mastodon.social/cache/preview_cards/images/059/998/839/original/74e91efacf98def0.png", 39 "title": "Verification", 40 "type": "link", 41 "url": "https://joinmastodon.org/verification", 42 "width": 400 43 }, 44 "content": "<p>Looks like <span class=\"h-card\"><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica\" class=\"u-url mention\">@<span>arstechnica</span></a></span> is now verified on here! Always great to see this feature used. It'll be even more prominent in the future.</p><p><a href=\"https://joinmastodon.org/verification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://</span><span class=\"\">joinmastodon.org/verification</span><span class=\"invisible\"></span></a></p>", 45 "created_at": "2023-04-27T22:37:39.080Z", 46 "favourites_count": 420, 47 "id": "110273171231251728", 48 "language": "en", 49 "mentions": [ 50 { 51 "acct": "arstechnica", 52 "id": "110266162634306901", 53 "url": "https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica", 54 "username": "arstechnica" 55 } 56 ], 57 "reblogs_count": 280, 58 "replies_count": 14, 59 "uri": "https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/110273171231251728", 60 "url": "https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110273171231251728", 61 "visibility": "public" 62}
- 2 monthly users
- 100.0% runs succeeded
- 6.7 days response time
- Created in Apr 2023
- Modified about 1 year ago