Generating a Token on Mastodon

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Mastodon is very flexible and useful, there are plenty of APIs available to play around with. To make use of most of the APIs, you'll need to generate a token and grant specific permissions to it.

Here's how you do it:

  1. Login to your Mastodon instance, ie. https://mastodon.sg
  2. Go to Preference -> Development, click on New Application.
  3. Enter the name of the Application and modify the scopes required.
    *It is highly not recommended to give read:all or write:all
  4. Submit it then click on the name of the Application you've just created.
  5. You'll be able to copy the Access Token here.
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Remember to keep your Access Token safe. Generate a new one if you think it's been compromised or if you've modified the Scopes.