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  • Interact with the mastodon API from R (xsd:string)
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  • An implementation of calls designed to collect and organize Mastodon data via its Application Program Interfaces (API), which can be found at the following URL: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/ . Use Cases This package was used in Wähner et al. (2004) for collecting Mastodon data. Although not using this package, the data from the Mastodon API has been used in various social science publications on platform migration (e.g. La Cava et al. 2023 ) and online network formation (e.g. La Cava, et al. 2021 ). Input Data This method does not require any input data. Output Data The output from this software is a standard tibble of data collected from the Mastodon API. Hardware Requirements This package runs on any hardware that can run R. Environment Setup With R installed: install.packages("rtoot") How to Use In general, one should first conduct the authentication to obtain an access token. This can be done with the provided function auth_setup() . For more information, please refer to the documentation on authentication . However, it is also possible to use some of functions with authentication. For example, it is possible to obtain the public timeline of a Mastodon instance, e.g. sciences.social. library(rtoot) get_timeline_public(instance = "sciences.social") # A tibble: 20 × 29 id uri created_at content visibility sensitive spoiler_text 1 11513508… http… 2025-09-02 14:05:37 "

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    To… public FALSE "" # ℹ 22 more variables: reblogs_count , favourites_count , # replies_count , url , in_reply_to_id , # in_reply_to_account_id , language , text , # application >, poll >, card >, account , # reblog >, media_attachments >, mentions >, # tags >, emojis >, favourited , reblogged , # muted , bookmarked , pinned Other functions, e.g. get_timeline_hashtag() , get_account_statuses() require authentication. Please refer to the “Introduction to rtoot” for a comprehensive introduction of the package. Technical Details See the official CRAN repository for further information about technical details. References Schoch, D., & Chan, C. H. (2023). Software presentation: Rtoot: Collecting and analyzing Mastodon data. Mobile Media & Communication , 11(3), 575-578. https://doi.org/10.1177/20501579231176678 Wähner, M., Deubel, A., Breuer, J., & Weller, K. “Don’t research us”—How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics. Publizistik 69, 357–380 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11616-024-00855-6 Contact Details Maintainer: David Schoch david@schochastics.net Issue Tracker: https://github.com/gesistsa/rtoot/issues (xsd:string)

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