mastools
A bunch of tools
Trends
See https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/admin/trends/ There are three trend types:
- Links
- Statuses
- Tags
To see how it works look at the out from git grep "manage_taxonomies" and git grep "Admin::Trends".
NOTE: I personally disable links on servers I admin. There is too much risk from a bad/malicious link.
Handling Permissions
It's never a good idea to have a lot of credentials floating around with broad permissions. To set this up soundly:
- Create a "Trend Editor" role that can ONLY "Manage Taxonomies"
- Create a service account and grant it that role
- Login to this account, setup 2FA, etc.
- Create a new application on the service account
- Revoke all permissions except "admin:write". Unfortunately Mastodon doesn't have a fine grained permission for "admin:trends".
- Copy the access token into a secret manager.
- Pass the token to this application when calling methods