FediResolve is a command-line tool for resolving and displaying Fediverse content.

It can parse and display ActivityPub content from various Fediverse platforms including Mastodon, Mbin, Lemmy, PeerTube, and others. For easy reading or debugging purposes.

• Resolve Fediverse URLs to their ActivityPub representation
• Resolve Fediverse handles (e.g., @username@domain.tld)
• Display both the full JSON data and a human-readable summary
• Support for various ActivityPub types (Person, Page, Note, Article, etc.)
• Automatic resolution of shared/forwarded content to the original source

FediResolve for Linux

Either download the prebuild binary from releases or build from source, see below.

• Go 1.21 or later

git clone https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/fediresolve.git
cd fediresolve
go build

Optionally, install the binary by executing:

go install

Which depending on the OS installs to the installation directory, under Linux that would be: $HOME/go/bin.
Be sure to add $HOME/go/bin path to your $PATH in your shell, more info.

Once installed (assuming the $HOME/go/bin path is in your $PATH) you can just execute the fediresolve binary without ./ of course.

# Provide a URL or handle as an argument
./fediresolve https://mastodon.social/@user/12345
./fediresolve @username@domain.tld
# Or run without arguments and enter the URL/handle when prompted
./fediresolve

./fediresolve https://kbin.melroy.org/m/til/t/875629/Context7-Up-to-date-documentation-for-LLMs-and-AI-code-editors

./fediresolve https://mastodon.melroy.org/@melroy/114297155915355913

./fediresolve @melroy@mastodon.melroy.org

FediResolve uses the following process to resolve Fediverse content:

1. For handles (@username@domain.tld), it uses the WebFinger protocol to discover the ActivityPub actor URL
2. For URLs, it attempts to fetch the ActivityPub representation directly. Or if the content is needs to be resolved from another Fediverse instance.
3. Content is parsed and displays both the raw JSON object and a nice looking summary.

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