A small script that scrapes a Fediverse user's profile and prints all their posts/replies on the terminal.
A lot of instances block searches. You would normally have to click "Show more" until you find what you're looking for (which is exactly what Fediscrape does). I put a delay between each "click" to avoid spamming servers. I'm sure there's a better way to do it but it's better than nothing.
The bs4 and requests python modules are required dependencies. They can be installed for your user using pip3 install --user bs4 requests, or globally using your distribution's package manager e.g. apt-get install python3-requests python3-bs4.
Print all posts/replies:
./fediscrape.py username@example.comSearch for specific string:
./fediscrape.py username@example.com | grep "search string"Write all posts/replies to a file:
./fediscrape.py username@example.com > filenamePlease, avoid object-oriented programming.
“Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.”
— John Carmack
More on this: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/
Fediscrape is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information or see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
Note: Fediscrape currently supports Mastodon, Pleroma and Misskey.