Mastodon commandline client

toot/.gitignore

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+target/
+.idea/
+mastodon-data.toml
+

toot/Cargo.toml

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+[package]
+name = "toot"
+version = "0.1.0"
+authors = ["Stefan Schlott <stefan@ploing.de>"]
+
+[dependencies]
+
+[dependencies.elefren]
+version = "0.14"
+features = ["toml"]

toot/src/main.rs

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+extern crate elefren;
+
+use std::env;
+use std::io;
+use std::error::Error;
+
+use elefren::prelude::*;
+use elefren::helpers::toml; // requires `features = ["toml"]`
+
+fn main() -> Result<(), Box<Error>> {
+    let mastodon = if let Ok(data) = toml::from_file("mastodon-data.toml") {
+        Mastodon::from(data)
+    } else {
+        register()?
+    };
+
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+    let status_text = args.get(1);
+    match status_text {
+        Some(text) => {
+            let mut status = StatusBuilder::new(text);
+            status.sensitive = Some(false);
+            mastodon.new_status(status)?;
+        },
+        None => println!("No text to toot"),
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn register() -> Result<Mastodon, Box<Error>> {
+    let registration = Registration::new("https://chaos.social")
+        .client_name("toot-cli")
+        .scopes(Scopes::ReadWrite) // write:statuses would be sufficient. Scopes::Write didn't work
+        .build()?;
+    let url = registration.authorize_url()?;
+
+    println!("Click this link to authorize on Mastodon: {}", url);
+    println!("Paste the returned authorization code: ");
+
+    let mut input = String::new();
+    io::stdin().read_line(&mut input)?;
+
+    let code = input.trim().to_string();
+    let mastodon = registration.complete(&code)?;
+
+    // Save app data for using on the next run.
+    toml::to_file(&*mastodon, "mastodon-data.toml")?;
+
+    Ok(mastodon)
+}