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Mastodon Public Posts & Hashtag Scraper

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Collect public posts, hashtag timelines and profile posts from Mastodon instances via their open JSON endpoints, with no login.

Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 results

Rating

0.0

(0)

Developer

James Barnes

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Sample output

{
    "id": "112233445566778899",
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112233445566778899",
    "instance": "mastodon.social",
    "created_at": "2024-05-01T12:34:56.000Z",
    "language": "en",
    "text": "Example post text about #opensource",
    "spoiler_text": null,
    "sensitive": false,
    "author_username": "Gargron",
    "author_acct": "Gargron",
    "author_display_name": "Eugen Rochko",
    "author_url": "https://mastodon.social/@Gargron",
    "author_followers": 300000,
    "replies_count": 12,
    "reblogs_count": 30,
    "favourites_count": 85,
    "hashtags": ["opensource"],
    "media": [],
    "is_reply": false,
    "boosted_by": null
}

(Values above are illustrative of the format.)

Use cases

Brand and topic monitoring through hashtags
Research on discussions in the fediverse
Tracking public posts from specific accounts
Building datasets of public posts with engagement counts

Input

Field	Description
`mode`	`public_timeline`, `hashtag` or `profile`
`instance`	Server domain, e.g. `mastodon.social`
`hashtags`	Hashtags without `#` (hashtag mode)
`profiles`	Handles like `Gargron` (profile mode)
`maxResults`	Total posts to collect (up to 5000)
`localOnly`	Only posts created on that instance
`excludeReplies` / `excludeReblogs`	Filter replies or boosts
`minFavourites`	Minimum favourites per post

Pricing

$0.001 per result (per post saved to the dataset). 1,000 posts cost $1.

Limits

Only public data visible to logged-out visitors is read.
Some instances disable public timelines or hashtag access without login; those return no results and a warning is logged.
A hashtag or timeline only shows posts known to the chosen instance, so different instances return different sets.
Requests are paced at about one per second, with backoff on rate limiting (429).
No CAPTCHAs are solved and no private contact details are collected.
Maximum 5000 posts per run.

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