The Elephant and the Serpent (PyLatam 2019)

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1. The Elephant and the Serpent Philip James, @phildini, #PyConLatam19
2. ?
3. Who's this guy?
4. ✨
5. @phildini
8. Misaligned Incentives
9. What else can we do?
10. Mastodon
12. Toot Compose View • Settings link • Search bar • Compose view • 500 characters! • Emoji! • Polls! • Visibility • Content warnings!
13. https://xkcd.com/2106/
14. Home View • All the toots from the people you follow • Replies! • Retoots! • Liking!
15. Local timeline • All the public, non-reply toots from people on your server
16. Federated timeline • All the public, non-reply toots from people on your server
17. ActivityPub
18. Inbox Outbox Internet
19. Inbox Outbox GET https://mastodon.social POST @alice@mastodon.social
20. https://mastodon.social @alice@mastodon.social @bob@mastodon.social POST POST GET Inbox Outbox Inbox Outbox
21. https://mastodon.social @alice@mastodon.social @bob@other.server POST POST GET https://other.server Inbox Outbox Inbox Outbox
22. Federation
23. Federation
24. Federation
25. Magical communities require norms
26. https://mastodon.social @alice@mastodon.social @bob@other.server https://other.server Inbox Outbox Inbox Outbox POST "follow alice" bob POST to followers
27. ✨ActivityPub✨ https://activitypub.rocks/ https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
28. API-Friendly https://docs.joinmastodon.org/
29. Let's build a bot! • ZenBot! • toot lines from the Zen of Python • Living on botsin.space
30. OAuth + Scopes
32. Using requests
33. Using requests Python 3.6.4 (default, Feb 10 2018, 09:39:10) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import requests
34. Using requests >>> response = requests.post( "https://botsin.space/api/v1/statuses", headers={ "Authorization": "Bearer 558cce8660cfc733bbaf7904e54c9aece5221797a7e6f494a c2e8276bdcec726" }, data={"status": "This is a test"}) >>> response.ok True
35. Using requests
36. Mastodon.py https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
38. Mastodon.py
39. Why use a client lib? Why not? •Why use Mastodon.py? • Tests • Abstractions • Updates •Why not? • Special functionality • Update lag
40. ZenBot
42. zenbot.py import this import os from mastodon import Mastodon def toot_zen(): zen = "".join( [this.d.get(c, c) for c in this.s] ).split("\n") instance = Mastodon( access_token=os.getenv('ACCESS_TOKEN'), api_base_url='https://botsin.space', ) toot = instance.toot( f'The Zen of Python says:\n\n{random.choice(zen)}', ) if __name__ == '__main__': toot_zen()
43. Where to host? • Your laptop + cron • A server you own + cron • Heroku + heroku scheduler
44. How do I choose a server? • joinmastodon.org • Do you like the feel of community? • Do you like the Code of Conduct? • Do you like the admins? You can move around, try different servers, and have multiple identities!
45. What next? •Find a server •Join the community •Build a bot •Help make magic! phildini@phildini.net @phildini@wandering.shop