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How to Stream from the Mastodon API via HTTP in Python

How to Stream from the Mastodon API via HTTP in Python

As I've mentioned in many of my blog posts before this one, Mastodon has a publicly available API which can be used to scrape statuses, collect hashtags and much more. One feature that I have yet to mention in this blog is the ability to stream statuses as Mastodon features

How to Stream Tweets using the Twitter API

EDIT (Feb 2023): As of 09/02/2023, Twitter is closing down public access to the API and replacing it with a paid service. Collecting tweets from Twitter can be done in a number of different ways. In a previous blog post, we showed how to extract social network interactions