CMPE272 : Mastodon API Exercise

Running the Server locally

git clone https://github.com/kunal768/mastodon-api.git

The Go server file is located at cmd/master/main.go. To run the server:

1. Ensure you have Go installed on your system.
2. Navigate to the cmd/master directory.
3. Set up your mastodon social account and in developer settings create a project.
4. Give read, write and push permissions to the project
5. Create a .env in cmd/master file with the following Mastodon account values:

MASTODON_SERVER=your_server_url
CLIENT_KEY=your_client_key
CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret
ACCESS_TOKEN=your_access_token
USER_ID=your_user_id
ALLOWED_ORIGIN=your_client_url_with_port

7. To get value for USER_ID use below curl with your Mastodon Social Acccount name and copy the id value from JSON response

curl --location 'https://mastodon.social/api/v1/accounts/lookup?acct=<accountname>'

8. Once the .env file is set up in the ./cmd/master run the below command opening shell in the same directory :

go run main.go

Important

to avoid CORS error update ALLOWED_ORIGIN variable in server .env with IP from where below client will be hosted

Client Setup

To set up and run the Next.js client:

1. Open another shell and run below command :

npm install && npm run dev

Congratulations you're good to go ! Made with ❤️