This tool was created to help you discover information about Mastodon accounts followed by an account you specify, helping you to find good people to follow.

To use it, first add it to your computer (you'll need PHP and Composer installed):

composer global require little-green-man/mastodon-follows

Then run mastodon-follows, with the arguments as follows:

Required Arguments

  • url: The URL of the following page to gather data from

Optional Arguments

  • personalInstance: Provide this to be provided with links that allow you to follow users more easily
  • maxPages: Provide this as a positive integer to stop processing after so many pages of users

Usage example:

mastodon-follows https://mastodon.social/@kurucu83/following --personalInstance=social.lgm.ltd

A file called "follows.html" will be produced in your current working directory.