I made an issue discussion over on Mastodon’s GitHub, but no response. I just have to assume its a large project, and mine got lost in GitHub’s moderation pool or something.

Anyways, idk what I just said in that last part of that sentence, but I’m having a bit of trouble trying to scope my API Application for my MSTDN Bot.

What’s Happening?

I’ve set up my Mastodon bot, but I’m having trouble with the API application settings. When I try to grant my application the write_posts scope through Mastodon Application, I click save, and it appears to save successfully. However, when I check my app, I receive an error message: Error: ('Mastodon API returned error', 403, 'Forbidden', 'This action is outside the authorized scopes').

Upon reviewing the Mastodon web interface again, I notice that the write_posts scope is no longer checked, as if I had just unchecked it. The interface still claims that the changes were saved, but it seems that the update wasn’t actually persisted.

Any Help is Great!

  • snowe@programming.devM
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    1 day ago

    This community is a meta community for the programming.dev Lemmy instance. We do not run a mastodon server. This is also not a programming help community, it’s for discussing issues with the Lemmy instance. From what you’ve written it seems like you’re having trouble with a mastodon API and it would probably be better to ask for help in a community geared toward that.