Mastodon

Post release announcements to a Mastodon instance

Config

announce:
  mastodon:
    enabled: true
    server: "https://mastodon.social"
    message_template: "{{ .ProjectName }} {{ .Tag }} is out! Check it out at {{ .ReleaseURL }}"

Field	Type	Description
`enabled`	bool	Enable Mastodon announcements
`server`	string	Full URL of your Mastodon instance (e.g. `https://mastodon.social`)
`message_template`	string	Toot text (templates supported). Default: `{{ .ProjectName }} {{ .Tag }} is out! Check it out at {{ .ReleaseURL }}`

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Description
`MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN`	Yes	User access token for the posting account

MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN is sent as a Bearer credential on POST /api/v1/statuses. No client ID or secret is required or accepted — those belong to OAuth authorization flows, not to posting an authenticated status.

Empty server handling

If server renders to an empty string, anodizer logs a warning and skips the Mastodon announcement without failing the pipeline.

Obtaining credentials

Log in to your Mastodon instance.
Go to Preferences → Development → New Application.
Grant the write:statuses scope.
Copy the Your access token → MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN.

Example

announce:
  mastodon:
    enabled: true
    server: "https://fosstodon.org"
    message_template: "{{ .ProjectName }} {{ .Tag }} is out! {{ .ReleaseURL }} #rustlang"

MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN=xyz789