Interesting, the Mona app dev forked some scraper that imitates a web browser to collect Mastodon data without having to register an app/api token.
https://github.com/JunyuKuang/snscrape/blob/master/snscrape/modules/mastodon.py#L98
I'm not sure how the fedi would feel about that 🧐
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2024-02-19 05:32:17
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