Toot-Mastodon-CLI-TUI-client-Linux/docs/introduction.md

toot - Mastodon CLI client
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![Toot trumpet logo](./trumpet.png)

Toot is a CLI and TUI tool for interacting with Mastodon (and other compatible) instances from the command line.

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Resources
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* [Documentation](https://toot.bezdomni.net/)
* [Source code on GitHub](https://github.com/ihabunek/toot)
* [Issues on GitHub](https://github.com/ihabunek/toot/issues)
* [Mailing list on Sourcehut](https://lists.sr.ht/~ihabunek/toot-discuss) for discussion, support and patches
* Informal discussion on the #toot IRC channel on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat/)

Command line client
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* Posting, replying, deleting, favouriting, reblogging & pinning statuses
* Support for media uploads, spoiler text, sensitive content
* Search by account or hash tag
* Following, muting and blocking accounts
* Simple switching between multiple Mastodon accounts

Terminal User Interface
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toot includes a terminal user interface. Run it with `toot tui`.

![](images/tui_list.png)

![](images/tui_poll.png)

![](images/tui_compose.png)

License
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Copyright Ivan Habunek <ivan@habunek.com> and contributors.

Licensed under the [GPLv3](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html) license.