An Online Mastodon Archive Viewer

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Here’s a quick write-up of something I actually built a week or so ago… and forgot to share on the blog. Instead, I shared a way to integrate your Mastodon with Eleventy. In that post, I mentioned how the account Fedi.Tips was looking for ways to let people view their archived Mastodon data. I followed their guide on getting my export and started work on a simple viewer. If you don’t care about the "how", and have your archive ready, just head on over to https://tootviewer.netlify.app and upload your zip. The Archive # When you get your Mastodon archive, it will be a zip file containing the following: actor.json: A file related to the user, yourself probably. avatar.jpg:... more →
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Building a Web Version of Your Mastodon Archive with Eleventy

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A couple of days ago Fedi.Tips, an account that shares Mastodon tips, asked about how non-technical users could make use of their Mastodon archive. Mastodon makes this fairly easy (see this guide for more information), and spurred by that, I actually started work on a simple(ish) client-side application to support that. (You can see it here: https://tootviewer.netlify.app) This post isn’t about that, but rather, a look at how you can turn your archive into a web site using Eleventy. This is rather rough and ugly, but I figure it may help others. Here’s what I built. Start with a Fresh Eleventy Site # To begin, I just created a folder and npm installed Eleventy. I’m using the... more →
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