Mastodon Timeline
by sophie@selfnet.de and fw@dividuum.de

Mastodon Timeline

Shows toots from a tag timeline
Mastodon instance to pull from and the tag are both configurable
No api keys needed, uses only publicly available info from the confgured Mastodon instance

Adding this package to your existing setups

First of all you have to install this package. The easiest way is probably to visit the package gallery, select the package and click on Import package in the top right corner.

Note to Mastodon instance admins

This package uses the user agent info-beamer mastodon poller serial together with a unique seraial number per device, so that you can block these requests if they have adverse effects on your instance.

Thanks

This package is based on the twitter module already included in Scheduled Player
Header image elephant is CC-BY-SA 4.0 from https://docs.joinmastodon.org

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Compatible devices

pi-1 pi-2 pi-3 pi-4 pi-5 pi-cm1 pi-cm3 pi-cm4 pi-zero pi-zero-2

Compatible packages

This package can be extended by importing the following packages as well. You can then add the following packages as a child package of Mastodon Timeline to get additional features not included in Mastodon Timeline itself.

Power Saver

by Florian Wesch <fw@info-beamer.com>

Powers down the screen at configurable times. Add to any of your Setups.

Learn more..

Offline support

No This package will not work offline: Needs to fetch remote mastodon content

Copyright

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    BSD 2-Clause License

    Copyright (c) 2020 Florian Wesch <fw@dividuum.de> and Sophie Schiller <sophie@selfnet.de>
    All rights reserved.

    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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package.png
mastodon-logo.png
    Jin Nguyen, AGPL http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl.html, via Wikimedia Commons
    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mastodon_Logotype_(Simple).svg

default-font.ttf
    Originally called OpenSansEmoji.ttf
    Apache 2.0 licenced
    https://github.com/MorbZ/OpenSansEmoji

package-header.jpg
    CC BY-SA 4.0
    https://docs.joinmastodon.org/elephant.svg

hosted.py / hosted.js
    Part of the info-beamer hosted SDK
    BSD2
    https://github.com/info-beamer/package-sdk

Mastodon Timeline
by sophie@selfnet.de and fw@dividuum.de