isn't it strange how every day of the week's name ends in -day (at least in english)? you'd think that the people coming up with these things could be a little more creative.. smh my head
hacking on this stuff is entirely too rewarding, even if i only wrote like.. 35 lines of code in some three hours or so (albeit, with plenty of messing around on other things)
now to clean up the output and dump it to a file! (i get the feeling this'll be the bulk of the program, assuming a library isn't readily available to do it for me)
finally figured out the oauth flow (authentication is painful ;-; (am using Mastodon.py)) but, it can request posts now... or at least directly from the home timeline
now to figure out the right function call to pull a particular post and we'll be golden.. (i'm sure there's a simple html -> markdown python thingy, right? (famous last words ehehe))
been too long since i've done hackery things like this, kinda forgot how fun it is :3
python i think will do it! library i'm finding Mastodon.py looks decently sensible now.. how do the cool kids set up python projects these days.. i suppose in a venv or smthn like that..
or i could write it all in bash and curl ehehehe :3
do any here have a way to export a fedi thread into a markdown document? i've got some cooking in a personal thread i think i want to turn into a blog post of sorts, perhaps after a bit of an editing session...
i've managed to find mastoid, but it won't authenticate with my gts server... perhaps i'm just lacking the right search terms..
TodePond's thoughts on such topics have got me pretty inspired but their tool is for public threads only... i suppose i just want to cook in private threads :3
might end up making a tool of my own if i can't find one... (i suppose a rust crate or ruby gem for interacting with the masto-api would also be awesome!)
