Create a mastodon user account when you're on the local server.

It's a slow kludge at the moment.

Command Line

$ sudo npm install -g mastodon-create-account
$ sudo mastodon-create-account test7 [email protected]
success, I think
account-details-test7.json written
$ cat account-details-test7.json
{
  "username": "test7",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "pw": "/aasdfasdfasdfhiEH",
  "id": 680
}

Library

$ npm install --save mastodon-create-account

const acct = require('mastodon-create-account')

acct.create_local_account('test7', '[email protected]')
  .then(data => {
     // use data.pw, etc...
  })

Permissions

Works as root or someone who can sudo to the mastodon user.

For example, if you want to run this as user botmaster, put this in /etc/sudoers:

botmaster ALL = (mastodon) ALL

It's slow

Calls the ruby code on a pipe. Crazy, I know.

Slow because of how ruby bundle works. I bet with a tiny bit of ruby knowledge it could be made fast, by like saving the bundle or something.