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	<h1 id="posting-blogs-as-mastodon-toots">Posting blogs as Mastodon Toots</h1>

<p>What is better than posting a blog post? Posting about your posting pipeline. I did this previously with <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="/posts/2021-06-25-Blog2Twitter-P1.html">Twitter</a>. </p>

<h2 id="the-elephant-in-the-room">the elephant in the room</h2>

<p>mastodon.social does not support any formatting in the status posts. 
Yes, there are other instances which have patches to enable features such as markdown formatting, but there is no upstream support.</p>

<h2 id="time-to-code">time to code</h2>

<p>My website is built using a really simple static site generator I wrote in Python.
Therefore, each post is self-contained in a Markdown file with the necessary metadata.</p>

<p>I am going to specify the path to the blog post, parse it and then publish it.</p>

<p>I initially planned on having a command line parser and some more flags.</p>

<h3 id="interacting-with-mastodon">interacting with mastodon</h3>

<p>I ended up using mastodon.py rather than crafting requests by hand. Each status<em>post/toot call returns a status</em>id that can be then used as an in<em>reply</em>to parameter.</p>

<p>For the code snippets, seeing that mastodon does not support native formatting, I am resorting to using ray-so.</p>

<h3 id="reading-markdown">reading markdown</h3>

<p>I am using a bunch of regex hacks, and reading the blog post line by line. 
Because there is no markdown support, I append all the links to the end of the toot.
For images, I upload them and attach them to the toot.
The initial toot is generated based off the title and the tags associated with the post.</p>

<div class="codehilite">
<pre><span></span><code><span class="c1"># Regexes I am using</span>

<span class="n">markdown_image</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;(?:!\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\))&#39;</span>
<span class="n">markdown_links</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;(?:\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\))&#39;</span>
<span class="n">tags_within_metadata</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;tags: ([\w,\s]+)&quot;</span>
<span class="n">metadata_regex</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n&quot;</span>
</code></pre>
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<p>This is useful when I want to get the exact data I want.
In this case, I can extract the tags from the front matter.</p>

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<pre><span></span><code><span class="n">metadata</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">metadata_regex</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">markdown_content</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DOTALL</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">metadata</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">tags_match</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;tags: ([\w,\s]+)&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">metadata</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">))</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">tags_match</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">tags</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tags_match</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;,&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
</code></pre>
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<h3 id="code-snippet-support">code snippet support</h3>

<p>I am running <a rel="noopener" target="_blank" href="https://github.com/akashrchandran/Rayso-API">akashrchandran/Rayso-API</a>.</p>

<div class="codehilite">
<pre><span></span><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">requests</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">code</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">language</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;python&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">title</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Code Snippet&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">params</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;code&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">code</span><span class="p">),</span>
        <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;language&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">language</span><span class="p">),</span>
        <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;title&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">title</span><span class="p">),</span>
    <span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="n">response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">requests</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;http://localhost:3000/api&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">params</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">params</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">response</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">content</span>
</code></pre>
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<h3 id="threads-threads-threads">threads! threads! threads!</h3>

<p>Even though mastodon does officially have a higher character limit than Twitter. 
I prefer the way threads look.</p>

<h2 id="result">result</h2>

<p>Everything does seem to work!
Seeing that you are reading this on Mastodon, and that I have updated this section.</p>

<p><iframe src="https://mastodon.social/@navanchauhan/109577330116812393/embed" class="mastodon-embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="400" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><script src="https://static-cdn.mastodon.social/embed.js" async="async"></script></p>

<h2 id="whats-next">what's next?</h2>

<p>Here is the current code:</p>

<div class="codehilite">
<pre><span></span><code><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">mastodon</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">Mastodon</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">mastodon.errors</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">MastodonAPIError</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">requests</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">re</span>

<span class="n">mastodon</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Mastodon</span><span class="p">(</span>
    <span class="n">access_token</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;reeeeee&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="n">api_base_url</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">&quot;https://mastodon.social&quot;</span>
    <span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">url_base</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;https://web.navan.dev&quot;</span>
<span class="n">sample_markdown_file</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Content/posts/2022-12-25-blog-to-toot.md&quot;</span>

<span class="n">tags</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="n">toots</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="n">image_idx</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">markdown_image</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;(?:!\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\))&#39;</span>
<span class="n">markdown_links</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">r</span><span class="s1">&#39;(?:\[(.*?)\]\((.*?)\))&#39;</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">code</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">language</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;python&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">title</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Code Snippet&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">params</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;code&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">code</span><span class="p">),</span>
        <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;language&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">language</span><span class="p">),</span>
        <span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;title&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">title</span><span class="p">),</span>
    <span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="n">response</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">requests</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;http://localhost:3000/api&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">params</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">params</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">response</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">content</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">TootContent</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">text</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="nb">str</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">text</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">images</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">image_count</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">images</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="fm">__str__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">toot_text</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span>
        <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">link</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">toot_text</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="s2">&quot; &quot;</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">link</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">toot_text</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">toot_text</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span>
        <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">link</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">toot_text</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="s2">&quot; &quot;</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">link</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">toot_text</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_length</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">length</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">link</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">length</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="mi">23</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">length</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">add_link</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">link</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">23</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">498</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">link</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">lower</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="s1">&#39;h&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="n">link</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">url_base</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">link</span>
            <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="kc">True</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="kc">False</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">add_image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">image</span><span class="p">):</span>

        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">images</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># will handle in future</span>
            <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;cannot upload more than 4 images per toot&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span> 
            <span class="n">exit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="c1"># upload image and get id</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">images</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">image_count</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">images</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">add_text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">text</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">text</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="mi">400</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="kc">False</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">text</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot; </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="kc">True</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">get_links</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">links</span><span class="p">))</span>


<span class="n">in_metadata</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">False</span>
<span class="n">in_code_block</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">False</span>

<span class="n">my_toots</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="n">text</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="n">images</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="n">image_links</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="n">extra_links</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="n">tags</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>

<span class="n">code_block</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="n">language</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;bash&quot;</span>

<span class="n">current_toot</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">TootContent</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="n">metadata_regex</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;---\s*\n(.*?)\n---\s*\n&quot;</span>


<span class="k">with</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sample_markdown_file</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">markdown_content</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">read</span><span class="p">()</span>


<span class="n">metadata</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">metadata_regex</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">markdown_content</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">DOTALL</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">metadata</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">tags_match</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">search</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">r</span><span class="s2">&quot;tags: ([\w,\s]+)&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">metadata</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">))</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">tags_match</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">tags</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tags_match</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">group</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;,&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>


<span class="n">markdown_content</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">markdown_content</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">rsplit</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;---</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">line</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">markdown_content</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">split</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_length</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">400</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">()</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">continue</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s1">&#39;#&#39;</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;#&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">())</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">my_toots</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_text</span><span class="p">(</span>
                    <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">: a cross-posted blog post </span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span>
                    <span class="p">)</span>
                <span class="n">hashtags</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span>
                <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">tag</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">tags</span><span class="p">:</span>
                    <span class="n">hashtags</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;#</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">tag</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">,&quot;</span>
                <span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hashtags</span><span class="p">[:</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
                <span class="n">my_toots</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="p">)</span>
                <span class="n">current_toot</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">TootContent</span><span class="p">()</span>
            <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="n">my_toots</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="p">)</span>
                <span class="n">current_toot</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">TootContent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">:&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">continue</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="s2">&quot;```&quot;</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="n">in_code_block</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">in_code_block</span>
                <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">in_code_block</span><span class="p">:</span>
                    <span class="n">language</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strip</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;```&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s1">&#39;&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
                    <span class="k">continue</span>
                <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
                    <span class="k">with</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;code-snipped_</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">image_idx</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">.png&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">&quot;wb&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="n">f</span><span class="p">:</span>
                        <span class="n">f</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">write</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">get_image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">code_block</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">language</span><span class="p">))</span>
                    <span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_image</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;code-snipped_</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">image_idx</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">.png&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
                    <span class="n">image_idx</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="mi">1</span>
                    <span class="n">code_block</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span>
                <span class="k">continue</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">in_code_block</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;   &quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="se">\t</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
                <span class="n">code_block</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="se">\n</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span>
                <span class="k">continue</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">findall</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">markdown_image</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">image_link</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">findall</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">markdown_links</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="p">):</span>
                    <span class="n">image_link</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">image_link</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
                    <span class="c1"># not handled yet</span>
                <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">sub</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">markdown_image</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="s2">&quot;&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">findall</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">markdown_links</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span>
                <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">link</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">findall</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">markdown_links</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="p">):</span>
                    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_link</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])):</span>
                        <span class="n">extra_links</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span>
                    <span class="n">line</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">line</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s1">&#39;[</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">](</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s1">)&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">link</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
            <span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">add_text</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">):</span>
                <span class="n">my_toots</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="p">)</span>
                <span class="n">current_toot</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">TootContent</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">line</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">my_toots</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">current_toot</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">TootContent</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="n">my_toots</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">current_toot</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="n">in_reply_to_id</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">None</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">toot</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">my_toots</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">image_ids</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
    <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">image</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">images</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;uploading image, </span><span class="si">{</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">try</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="n">image_id</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mastodon</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">media_post</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">image</span><span class="p">)</span>
            <span class="n">image_ids</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">image_id</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">id</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">except</span> <span class="n">MastodonAPIError</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;failed to upload. Continuing...&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">image_ids</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="p">[]:</span>
        <span class="n">image_ids</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="kc">None</span>

    <span class="n">in_reply_to_id</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mastodon</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">status_post</span><span class="p">(</span>
        <span class="n">toot</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">get_text</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">in_reply_to_id</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">in_reply_to_id</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">media_ids</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">image_ids</span>
        <span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">id</span>
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<p>Not the best thing I have ever written, but it works!</p>

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