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Seth Michael Larson: Quick Mastodon toot templates for event hashtags

So I went looking for a solution and found that Mastodon supports share URLs with pre-filled content, like hashtags. What I wanted to do was add a URL to my phone home screen:

https://<instance domain name>/share?text=%0A%0A%23PyCon%20%23PyConUS%20%23PyConUS2025

The above percent-encodedtextparameter is:

\n\n#PyCon #PyConUS #PyConUS2025

If we could save this URL direct to the home screen that would be the end of the story. Unfortunately, at least for iOS you can't save a web page that has a query parameter in the URL (like?text=...), so the solution needs to be slightly more complicated.

What I ended up doing is adding this URL to aGitHub Gistand then saving the Gist webpage to my home screen. On iOS the process is:

  • Navigate to the Gist in your mobile browser
  • Use the "share" button within the browser
  • Select "Add to Home Screen" in the share screen
  • Give the page a name (I went with "#PyConUS2025").
  • :tada:

Now I'm only ever two clicks away from a ready-to-use toot template for PyCon US. This technique is remixable for any hashtags or other text you're tooting often. Useurllib.parse.quote()in Python to create percent-encoded text.

https://sethmlarson.dev/quick-mastodon-toot-templates-for-event-hashtags?utm_campaign=rss

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