fediclient

fediclient

Do you ever wonder what's behind that @username@social.example.net username that you keep seeing mentioned?

Chances are it's probably a Fediverse username, and the way you turn that into a profile and list of posts is complicated

1. strip the initial @ and then curl https://social.example.net/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:username@social.example.net
2. look for the rel=self link
3. curl that url with curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" <url>
4. look at the summary
5. look for the outbox URL
6. curl the outbox url with curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" <url>
7. look for the last URL
8. fix the character encoding, and then curl the last URL with curl -H "Accept: application/activity+json" <url>

Or you could just run this CLI app that will do all of that for you

fediclient @username@social.example.net

Different implementations return different results, so this may not work for all instances. It has been tested against both Mastodon and Hometown

PRs welcome to add support for activitypub servers not currently working