I am trying to get direct messages from my Mastodon account using Mastodon.py. I am able to get everything on the timeline, but can't seem to return direct messages. Since direct messages are separate from the timeline (on the web interface), I am assuming there is some function other than timeline() I should be using. I looked into the status() function but I would need to already have the ID of the message to use it.
I have been searching the API documentation, but there doesn't appear to be any function or method that is obvious to me.
My function currently looks like this:
def get_direct_messages(mastodon):
# Get all status messages from the user's timeline
statuses = mastodon.timeline()
print(statuses)
# Filter the status messages to only include direct messages
direct_messages = [status for status in statuses if status["visibility"] == "direct"]
print (direct_messages)
return direct_messages
This will print out all the messages on the timeline, so I know the connection and everything is valid, but I'm just not doing something right.
print(statuses) shows timeline messages only, so I am sure this isn't the right way to access direct messages.
Instead of mastodon.timeline() you want to call
mastodon.conversations()
To get the content of the conversations you can do
conversations = mastodon.conversations()
for c in conversations:
print(c.last_status.content)
https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/07_timelines.html#mastodon.Mastodon.conversations