Re: [LUG] Bash scripting magic needed

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Bash scripting magic needed

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Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 06:18:58 +0000

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extract the url is

cat output1.txt | grep "https://qoto.org/media" >> toot.txt

grep 'Text URL: ' toot.txt | sed 's/Text URL: //'

On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 at 23:04, <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It would be easy to parse the toot output to give you the url - awk, cut or perl are options. But can't you just use the toot --media option for this?

toot --media file.png < text.txt

Or am I missing something?

Cheers
Pete

On 26 Dec 2020 22:33, Paul Sutton via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi

I am experimenting with the command line mastodon client toot

If I save some text in for example toot.txt then run

toot post < toot.txt

The content of toot.txt is posted to Mastodon (as expected)

Posting pictures however is a two step process

1. run toot upload file.png

will give me the following

Successfully uploaded media ID 105448798680946910, type 'image'
Original URL:
https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/105/448/798/680/946/910/original/27bd608eb6e11dab.png
Preview URL:
https://storage.gra.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_011f6e315d3744d498d93f6fa0d9b5ee/qotoorg/media_attachments/files/105/448/798/680/946/910/small/27bd608eb6e11dab.png
Text URL: https://qoto.org/media/nDWr_rzPjQbyxsh6ikA

In general I can manually copy / paste a url from the above to a toot.

However doing this from the command line,

toot upload file.png > picture.txt which produces a text file containing
similar text to the above.

Question :

How would I for example extract 'just' the url for the picture (e.g the
text url line. 'https://qoto.org/media/nDWr_rzPjQbyxsh6ikA' which will
be different each time, but would have 'https://qoto.org/media'

running

cat output1.txt | grep "https://qoto.org/media" >> toot.txt

appears to keep the "Text URL: " in place but does include the url.

Can anyone help please. I am probably 90% of the way there with this.

Thanks

Paul

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