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Quote

Represents a quote or a quote placeholder, with the current authorization status.

    • Example
    • Attributes
      • state
      • status
    • See also

Example

{
  "state": "accepted",
  "status": {
    "id": "103270115826048975",
    "created_at": "2019-12-08T03:48:33.901Z",
    "in_reply_to_id": null,
    "in_reply_to_account_id": null,
    "sensitive": false,
    "spoiler_text": "",
    "visibility": "public",
    "language": "en",
    "uri": "https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/103270115826048975",
    "url": "https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/103270115826048975",
    "replies_count": 5,
    "reblogs_count": 6,
    "favourites_count": 11,
    "favourited": false,
    "reblogged": false,
    "muted": false,
    "bookmarked": false,
    "content": "<p>&quot;I lost my inheritance with one wrong digit on my sort code&quot;</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/dec/07/i-lost-my-193000-inheritance-with-one-wrong-digit-on-my-sort-code\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">theguardian.com/money/2019/dec</span><span class=\"invisible\">/07/i-lost-my-193000-inheritance-with-one-wrong-digit-on-my-sort-code</span}</p>",
    "reblog": null,
    "application": {
      "name": "Web",
      "website": null
    },
    "account": {
      "id": "1",
      "username": "Gargron",
      "acct": "Gargron",
      "display_name": "Eugen",
      "locked": false,
      "bot": false,
      "discoverable": true,
      "group": false,
      "created_at": "2016-03-16T14:34:26.392Z",
      "note": "<p>Developer of Mastodon and administrator of mastodon.social. I post service announcements, development updates, and personal stuff.</p>",
      "url": "https://mastodon.social/@Gargron",
      "avatar": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/d96d39a0abb45b92.jpg",
      "avatar_static": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/d96d39a0abb45b92.jpg",
      "header": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/headers/000/000/001/original/c91b871f294ea63e.png",
      "header_static": "https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/headers/000/000/001/original/c91b871f294ea63e.png",
      "followers_count": 322930,
      "following_count": 459,
      "statuses_count": 61323,
      "last_status_at": "2019-12-10T08:14:44.811Z",
      "emojis": [],
      "fields": []
    },
    "media_attachments": [],
    "mentions": [],
    "tags": [],
    "emojis": [],
    "card": null,
    "poll": null
  }
}

Attributes

state

Description: The state of the quote.
Type: String (Enumerable, oneOf)
pending = The quote has not been acknowledged by the quoted account yet, and requires authorization before being displayed.
accepted = The quote has been accepted and can be displayed. This is the only case where status is non-null.
rejected = The quote has been explicitly rejected by the quoted account, and cannot be displayed.
revoked = The quote has been previously accepted, but is now revoked, and thus cannot be displayed.
deleted = The quote has been approved, but the quoted post itself has now been deleted.
unauthorized = The quote has been approved, but cannot be displayed because the user is not authorized to see it. Version history:
4.4.0 - added

status

Description: The status being quoted, if the quote has been accepted. This will be null, unless the state attribute is accepted.
Type: nullable Status or null
Version history:
4.4.0 - added

See also

ShallowQuote
app/serializers/rest/quote_serializer.rb

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