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   Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 06:46:55 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

   ** A question for Mastodon devs and other code divers:
   When I look at one of my posts on the website, I can see the number of bosts and likes it has (as far as my instance server knows, I assume).
   This information is not included in the archive I can download. Is there a way to get those numbers, other than scraping?

   (I have written an app to get my stories out of the Xitter archive - I'm adding an "Import from Mastodon" function as well, and noticed there's no engagement info.) **

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:38:40 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     • James 🌈💜

     @shaknais In the archive download I get, there is an outbox.json file with all my posts, and they only have replies, not likes or boosts.

     Are you looking at a REST API or something?

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     James 🌈💜 (shaknais@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:38:41 JST James 🌈💜

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     @MicroSFF Those numbers, and who is responsible for each, show up on a post's JSON file, for me.

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:42:40 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     • Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

     @lffontenelle I like to put together a "Most popular stories each month" list to sum up the year.

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     Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle (lffontenelle@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:42:41 JST Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle

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     @MicroSFF congrats! I never looked into my Facebook and Xitter exports, and never bothered with downloading my Mastodon history

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:54:39 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     • James 🌈💜

     @shaknais I had hoped to avoid having to make a REST call for each post, but I suspect I will have to.

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     James 🌈💜 (shaknais@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:54:40 JST James 🌈💜

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     @MicroSFF Yeah. For my host, I can just add ".json" to the end of any post, to get the data.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 17:34:26 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • James 🌈💜

     @MicroSFF @shaknais

     Maybe a constantly running bot using the push API (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/push/) would help with the rate-limiting. That's more resource-consuming, of course.

     Also: as on Fedi, people may be more prone to auto-removing old interactions (Masto has a setting for posts, and scripts for favs/boosts exist), the fav and boost totals may decline over time. A push-based bot would help track the highest fav / highest boost.

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 19:50:13 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

     • Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)

     @tokyo_0 Thank you! I will take a look at that.

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin (microsff@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 19:57:49 JST Micro SF/F by O. Westin

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     • Albert ARIBAUD ✎
     • James 🌈💜

     @aaribaud @shaknais I don't fancy setting up a bot; I'll probably make it a function to run manually occasionally. Since I will already have filtered out non-story posts, there shouldn't be thousands of posts to request.
     Thanks for the documentation links!