The actual script

digest.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+
+
+url=$(curl -s -H Accept:application/activity+json "$1" | jq -r '.outbox' | xargs curl -s -H Accept:application/activity+json | jq -r '.first')
+targetdate=$(date -d "now - $2 days" +%s)
+
+declare -A activities
+
+# Mastodon has pagination, so - let's find the page that contains post from now to n days ago.
+
+stop=false
+echo -n "Processing pages"
+while [ "$url" != "" ] && [ "$stop" != true ] ; do
+    response=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/activity+json" "$url")
+    lines=$(echo "$response" | jq -c '.orderedItems[] | {id, published}')
+    while IFS= read -r line; do
+        ts=$(echo "$line" | jq -r '.published' | xargs date +%s -d)
+        act=$(echo "$line" | jq -r '.id')
+        if [[ "$ts" -gt "$targetdate" ]]; then
+            activities["${ts}"]="$act"
+        else
+            stop=true
+        fi
+    done <<<"$lines"
+    url=$(echo "$response" | jq -r .next)
+    echo -n "."
+done
+echo ""
+
+# We got some activities, so now let's extract relevant info form them, turning into actual posts data
+
+declare -a posts
+echo -n "Processing activities"
+for key in "${!activities[@]}"; do
+    activity="${activities[$key]}"
+    response=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/activity+json" "$activity")
+    type=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.type')
+    datetime=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.published')
+    date=$(echo "$datetime" | cut -d "T" -f 1)
+    time=$(echo "$datetime" | cut -d "T" -f 2 | tr -d "Z")
+    if [[ "$type" = "Announce" ]]; then
+        link=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.object')
+        object=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/activity+json" "$link")
+        content=$(echo "$object" | jq -r '.content')
+        replyto=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.inReplyRTo')
+        actorlink=$(echo "$object" | jq -r '.attributedTo')
+        attachment=$(echo "$object" | jq -jc '.attachment[].url' 2>/dev/null || echo null)
+        if [ "$attachment" = "" ]; then
+            attachment="null"
+        fi
+        by=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/activity+json" "$actorlink" | jq -r '.name')
+    else
+        link=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.object.id')
+        content=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.object.content')
+        replyto=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.object.inReplyTo')
+        actorlink=$(echo "$response" | jq -r '.actor')
+        attachment=$(echo "$response" | jq -jc '.object.attachment[].url' 2>/dev/null || echo null)
+        if [ "$attachment" = "" ]; then
+            attachment="null"
+        fi
+        by=$(curl -s -H "Accept: application/activity+json" "$actorlink" | jq -r '.name')
+    fi
+    posts+=("$date―$time―$type―$link―$by―$content―$replyto―$attachment")
+    echo -n "."
+    # $(echo $content | w3m -T text/html -dump)
+done
+
+# Sort posts by date
+
+IFS=$'\n' sortedPosts=($(sort <<<"${posts[*]}"))
+unset IFS
+
+echo ""
+
+# Render posts on the screen and via less
+
+for i in "${sortedPosts[@]}"
+do
+	date=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $1 }')
+    time=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $2 }')
+    type=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $3 }')
+    link=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $4 }')
+    by=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $5 }')
+    content=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $6 }')
+    replyto=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $7 }')
+    attachment=$(echo "$i" | awk -F'―' '{ print $8 }')
+
+    if [ "$prevdate" != "$date" ]; then
+        echo -e "\e[1;41m====$date==== \e[0m"
+        prevdate="$date"
+    fi
+
+    if [[ "$type" = "Announce" ]]; then
+        type="🔄"
+    else
+        type="✨"
+    fi
+    echo -e "\e[1;42m$type $time $by $link\e[0m"
+    if [ "$replyto" != "null" ]; then
+        echo " ↩️ $replyto"
+    fi
+    echo "$content" | w3m -T text/html -dump
+    if [ "$attachment" != "null" ]; then
+        echo "$attachment"
+    fi
+done | less -r
+
+#printf "[%s]\n" "${sortedPosts[@]}"