Mastodon API authentication — Authenticate.mastodon • vosonSML

Mastodon OAuth authentication.

# S3 method for mastodon
Authenticate(
  socialmedia,
  instance = NULL,
  type = "public",
  verbose = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

socialmedia: Character string. Identifier for social media API to authenticate, set to "mastodon".
instance: Character string. Server to authenticate against and create token.
type: Character string. Type of access, can be "public" or "user". Default is "public".
verbose: Logical. Output additional information. Default is FALSE.
...: Additional parameters passed to function. Not used in this method.

Value

A credential object containing an access token $auth and social media type descriptor $socialmedia set to "mastodon". Object has the class names "credential" and "mastodon".

Note

vosonSML uses the rtoot package for Mastodon data collection and API access tokens.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# mastodon API public access bearer token
mastodon_auth <- Authenticate(
  "mastodon",
  instance = "mastodon.social"
)

# mastodon API user access bearer token
mastodon_auth_user <- Authenticate(
  "mastodon",
  instance = "mastodon.social",
  type = "user"
)

# if thread collection API token not required
mastodon_auth <- Authenticate("mastodon")
}