Question on pagination about go-mastodon

[178inaba]

@carbontwelve
I tried to get the status of the bot account in mastodon.cloud.
https://mastodon.cloud/web/accounts/556729

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"log"

	"github.com/mattn/go-mastodon"
)

func main() {
	c := mastodon.NewClient(&mastodon.Config{
		Server:       "https://mastodon.cloud",
		ClientID:     "foofoo",
		ClientSecret: "barbar",
	})

	ctx := context.Background()

	if err := c.Authenticate(ctx, "email", "password"); err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}

	pg := mastodon.Pagination{}
	page := 1
	for {
		ss, err := c.GetAccountStatuses(context.Background(), "556729", &pg)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatal(err)
		}

		fmt.Printf("%d, Messages Found: %d\n", page, len(ss))
		for _, s := range ss {
			fmt.Printf("%v\n", s.ID)
		}
		fmt.Printf("%+v\n", pg)

		if pg.MaxID == "" {
			break
		}
		pg.SinceID = ""
		pg.MinID = ""
		fmt.Printf("%+v\n", pg)
		time.Sleep(3 * time.Second)
		page++
	}
}

This worked.
I have obtained 125 pages of 20 results.
(I got the following string 125, Messages Found: 20)
I confirmed that I could get over 70 pages, so I stopped it at 125 pages.

Perhaps the instance you are using has API restrictions.

[carbontwelve]

I did some experimenting after posting this issue and have discovered something interesting. I have an account on one instance that I last posted to in 2019, the API returned no results; however as soon as I began posting statuses on it I was able to obtain those. Similarly on the instance where I am able to get 70 pages of 20 items plus one page of 8 I posted enough statuses to push that over to 72 in total and re-ran my code to find it happily chugged through to 72 pages.

I did wonder if because my access of /api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses is unauthenticated (i'm only interested in public statuses anyway) that it hides posts beyond a certain time frame but I was able to get my first toot published on 08/27/2018 @ 8:22pm from my first instance.

In either case it's a bit weird but I am able to get a history, it might not be complete but it's good enough for my use and I am able to download statuses posted after I last ran my programme.