A small tool to view real-world ActivityPub objects as JSON! Enter a URL
or username from Mastodon or a similar service below, and we'll send a
request with
the right
Accept
header
to the server to view the underlying object.
{
"@context": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
{
"ostatus": "http://ostatus.org#",
"atomUri": "ostatus:atomUri",
"inReplyToAtomUri": "ostatus:inReplyToAtomUri",
"conversation": "ostatus:conversation",
"sensitive": "as:sensitive",
"toot": "http://joinmastodon.org/ns#",
"votersCount": "toot:votersCount",
"Hashtag": "as:Hashtag"
}
],
"id": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/statuses/114378683129572561",
"type": "Note",
"summary": null,
"inReplyTo": null,
"published": "2025-04-22T00:03:19Z",
"url": "https://mastodon.social/@programming_quotes/114378683129572561",
"attributedTo": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes",
"to": [
"https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
],
"cc": [
"https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/followers"
],
"sensitive": false,
"atomUri": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/statuses/114378683129572561",
"inReplyToAtomUri": null,
"conversation": "tag:mastodon.social,2025-04-22:objectId=978128477:objectType=Conversation",
"content": "<p>Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.</p><p> — Rick Cook</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/users\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>users</span></a></p>",
"contentMap": {
"en": "<p>Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.</p><p> — Rick Cook</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/tags/users\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#<span>users</span></a></p>"
},
"attachment": [],
"tag": [
{
"type": "Hashtag",
"href": "https://mastodon.social/tags/users",
"name": "#users"
}
],
"replies": {
"id": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/statuses/114378683129572561/replies",
"type": "Collection",
"first": {
"type": "CollectionPage",
"next": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/statuses/114378683129572561/replies?only_other_accounts=true&page=true",
"partOf": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/statuses/114378683129572561/replies",
"items": []
}
},
"likes": {
"id": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/statuses/114378683129572561/likes",
"type": "Collection",
"totalItems": 14
},
"shares": {
"id": "https://mastodon.social/users/programming_quotes/statuses/114378683129572561/shares",
"type": "Collection",
"totalItems": 4
}
}