expandurl-mastodon is a Mastodon bot that expands shortened URLs.

If you want the bot to expand an URL, reply to the post with the URL in it and
mention the bot account (@expandurl@botsin.space for example).

This bot uses the same visibility as you, but posts unlisted instead of public.
It retains the sensitive flag and spoiler warnings.

Some tracking parameters, like those beginning with
utm_ are stripped. It also tries
to rewrite AMP URLs to
point at the real webpages.

Please report any bugs via the
issue tracker on schlomp.space
or to @tastytea@soc.ialis.me.

Install

Dependencies

• Tested OS: Linux
  
• C++ compiler (tested: gcc 6/7/8)
  
• cmake (tested: 3.9 / 3.11)
  
• curlpp (tested: 0.8)
  
• mastodon-cpp (at least: 0.30)
  
• jsoncpp (tested: 1.8 / 1.7)
  
• libxdg-basedir (tested: 1.2)
  
• Optional:
  
  • Manpage: asciidoc (tested: 8.6)
    
    

Get sourcecode

Latest release

https://schlomp.space/tastytea/expandurl-mastodon/releases

Development version

git clone https://schlomp.space/tastytea/expandurl-mastodon.git

Compile

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make

cmake options:

• -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug for a debug build
  
• -DWITH_MAN=NO to not compile the manpage
  
  

Install with make install.

Usage

Have a look at the manpage.

Copyright

Copyright © 2018, 2019 tastytea <tastytea@tastytea.de>.
License GPLv3: GNU GPL version 3 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html>.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.