@article{diener2006mastodon,
  doi          = {10.21105/joss.08946},
  year         = 2026,
  month        = apr,
  publisher    = {The Open Journal},
  volume       = 11,
  number       = 120,
  pages        = 8946,
  author       = {Diener, Lorenz and Delcourt, Corentin},
  title        = {Mastodon.py: A Python library for the Mastodon API},
  journal      = {Journal of Open Source Software},
  abstract     = {Mastodon is a free-software microblogging social media server that allows users to
    post short form text and media as part of the decentralized, federated ActivityPub network.
    Mastodon.py is a Python library that provides a user-friendly wrapper around the Mastodon REST
    and streaming APIs, enabling researchers, developers, and educators to build bots,
    data-collection tools, teaching examples, and full-featured clients for Mastodon and other
    servers that offer a Mastodon-compatible API, such as Akkoma, GoToSocial, and SNAC.},
  url          = {https://halcy.de/cites//pdf/diener2006mastodon.pdf},
}