Commands should be able to return json formatted data

[ihabunek]

To facilitate scripting, it would be nice if commands could spit out json instead of plaintext. This can be accomplished by adding a --json option. In many cases we could skip decoding json and spit out the json received from the server.

Progress:

Authentication

• [ ] login
• [ ] login_cli
• [ ] activate
• [ ] logout
• [ ] auth
• [ ] env
• [x] update_account

TUI

• [ ] tui

Read

• [x] whoami
• [x] whois
• [ ] notifications
• [x] instance
• [x] search
• [x] thread
• [x] status
• [ ] timeline
• [ ] bookmarks

Post

• [x] post
• [ ] upload

Status

• [x] delete
• [x] favourite
• [x] unfavourite
• [x] reblog
• [x] unreblog
• [x] reblogged_by
• [x] pin
• [x] unpin
• [x] bookmark
• [x] unbookmark

Accounts

• [x] follow
• [x] unfollow
• [x] following
• [x] followers
• [x] mute
• [x] unmute
• [x] muted
• [x] block
• [x] unblock
• [x] blocked

Hashtags

• [ ] tags_followed
• [ ] tags_follow
• [ ] tags_unfollow

Lists

• [ ] lists
• [ ] list_accounts
• [ ] list_create
• [ ] list_delete
• [ ] list_add
• [ ] list_remove

[danschwarz]

Agree, this has been on my wishlist for a while