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Getting an access token for FediFetcher

Michael edited this page Sep 9, 2024 · 2 revisions

Regardless of how you want to run FediFetcher, you must first get an access token:

If you are an Admin on your instance

  1. In Mastodon go to Preferences > Development > New Application
    1. Give it a nice name
    2. Enable the required scopes for your options. You could tick read and admin:read:accounts, or see the docs for a list of which scopes are required for which options.
    3. Save
    4. Copy the value of Your access token

If you are not an Admin on your Instance

  1. Go to GetAuth for Mastodon
  2. Type in your Mastodon instance's domain
  3. Copy the token.