Mastodon public timeline

A server's public timeline, newest first: its own members' posts (local), every public post the server knows (federated), or only posts from other servers (remote), optionally only posts with media. Each post as in the other timelines: text and HTML, author, counts, media, link card, poll, mentions and hashtags. Some servers keep their timelines for signed-in members; those answer 403. Pass next_cursor back as cursor; null on the last page.

Every response includes credits_used: the credits this call cost.

Parameters

Every endpoint also takes fresh, raw, fields (see lean responses and caching).

Example

curl "https://api.api.sh/mastodon/v1/timeline?instance=hachyderm.io" \
  -H "x-api-key: $APISH_KEY"

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.api.sh/mastodon/v1/timeline",
    params={"instance": "hachyderm.io"},
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["APISH_KEY"]},
    timeout=120,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()

const url = new URL("https://api.api.sh/mastodon/v1/timeline");
url.searchParams.set("instance", "hachyderm.io");

const res = await fetch(url, { headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.APISH_KEY } });
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status} ${await res.text()}`);
const data = await res.json();

Response

A JSON object with the fields described above, plus raw (the source's own data), cached, fetched_at and credits_used. Errors return {"success": false, "error": "…"} with the HTTP status (see errors). A lookup that ran but found nothing (404) costs the price above; refused calls and errors on our side are free (what's charged).