Python command line tool to send DM notifications to a mastodon user. - GitHub - babetoduarte/TootNotify: Python command line tool to send DM notifications to a mastodon user.
Hello everybody!
I wanted to share with you a small project I started recently.
TootNotify is a command line utility written in Python, which let's you send private toots (direct messages) to a given user, with the possibility of attaching media, flagging it as sensitive, and including content warnings.
This project was born out of a small program I had written some time ago, to notify me when long-running processes and tasks finished. It originally worked with Twitter, and worked for text-based messages only. Sadly, Twitter killed the DM functionality shortly after I originally coded this tool, and it got abandoned a few years ago.
Since then, I have moved away from Twitter, and with the prospect of having some long-running tasks in the horizon for my PhD dissertation, I figured I should implement this same functionality for Mastodon. I ended leveling-up my effort: deciding to make TootNotify into a full python package, and challenging myself to include broader functionality regarding attaching media to the notifications.
I hope some of you may find this tool interesting and/or useful, and please do drop comments or Issues on github if you find any problems/bugs.
Thanks!
I just switched to Lemmy yesterday, and I tried finding most of the communities I followed on reddit here. Since then, I've slowly realized that some of these communities rely on this automated bot that just dumps reddit content there.
I can appreciate the effort of populating these communities, but I found it irritating most of the time, since this is content that I can not genuinely interact with, only consume.
So, I don't think you're at fault here.
Just made the change, and I'm pleasantly surprised. Spent a bit of time looking for similar communities to the ones I subscribed to on reddit, and it's starting to feel like home again.
Probably will keep my reddit account handy, but I look forward to only consulting reddit when I must. For everything else, Lemmy seems to have everything I'm looking for!
