tootapalooza/server-util/README.md

make-users.py

This script must be run via python on your mastodon server because it calls the tootctl administration tool. There's lots of stuff you can do with the Mastodon API, but creating users like this requires a CLI tool.

This is a one-time step that you do when you begin to use toota-palooza. You can delete this script after you run it once.

Usage

1. Decide on an email address to use for all your accounts. (See EMAIL ADDRESSES below)
2. Decide how many you want to run
3. Copy this make-users.py script to your mastodon server.
4. cd to a directory where you can write an output file. You could do it from /tmp if you wanted to.
5. Make sure the mastodon tootctl binary is in your path, or provide the path as a --path argument.

Email Addresses

There will be some emails generated (the toota-palooza system tries to minimise them), and email addresses are needed for logging in. So we generate one email address per test user. You give us a regular email address like this: person@example.com. We will generate userIDs that look like this: tooter_pqda_568. And we will assign the email address: person+tooter_pqda_568@example.com to the tooter_pqda_568 Mastodon account. For most email services (GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail), this "plus addressing" has been an Internet standard for decades.