Delete media from mentions about mastodon-archive HOT 6 OPEN

Maybe? 😄

Actually, if you're comfortable with the command line, you could get the URLs of the url and the preview_url attributes of all the media in mentions (I think! Lightly tested…) by using this jq command:

jq '.mentions[].media_attachments[]|.url,.preview_url' octodon.social.user.kensanata.json

With a little sed you can extract all the path's you need:

jq '.mentions[].media_attachments[]|.url,.preview_url' octodon.social.user.kensanata.json \
| sed -n -e 's/[^\/]*\/\/[^\/]*\/\([^"]*\)"$/\1/p'

So perhaps this is enough to wrap around a loop to rm? Something like the following, untested?

rm $(jq '.mentions[].media_attachments[]|.url,.preview_url' octodon.social.user.kensanata.json \
| sed -n -e 's/[^\/]*\/\/[^\/]*\/\([^"]*\)"$/\1/p')

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I'd say such a feature would have to be added to the file media.py, in other words, some option for the media command.

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Not with the tool itself, unfortunately.

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Ok, so as well as #40 that's something I should try to add, I guess ? :)

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Well, it's not that I don't want to do it, but I don't have the time right know but those media files takes some storage space 😅

So thanks a lot for your command, I'll investigate.
And maybe add some PR :)

(the best would be not to download them, with an option)

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Yeah, to be honest I never download media...

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