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# mastodon-blocklist-deploy
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2023-01-05 14:33:38 +00:00
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A small tool to deploy blocklist updates to a mastodon server using its API.
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## Concept
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2023-01-09 07:40:28 +00:00
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The idea is to maintain a blocklist in a simple structured file in this repository. All changes need to be deployed to
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the mastodon server, this is supposed to be automated with Drone CI.
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In order to compare the list entries, we can read the whole blocklist
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using [the get endpoint](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/admin/domain_blocks/#get). At the same time we read the
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whole file in the repository, make a comparision
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and [remove](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/admin/domain_blocks/#delete) unblocked domains from the blocklist
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and [add](https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/admin/domain_blocks/#create) newly added.
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2023-01-05 14:33:38 +00:00
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2023-01-09 07:40:28 +00:00
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Since we have several attributes for a domain blog, a simple `.txt` file might not be sufficient. We probably want to
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set the severity, reject_media, reject_reports and comments. This means we need a human readable, easily python-readable
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and structured file format. Since Python 3.11 got native support for [toml](https://toml.io/) and it
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supports [Array of Tables](https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0#array-of-tables), I'd prefer to use this.
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