Mastodon RSS : what is "contentSnippet"?

[timconsidine]

I have an RSS feed from mastodon
The json included both content and contentSnippet.
I can't find documentation about how they differ.

Guessing the contentSnippet is the 1st xx chars of content.
But what is xx ?

Or is contentSnippet the full but non-html version of content ? I guess this may be a question about the RSS feed rather than Mastodon, but checking here first.

[timconsidine]

@timconsidine test of a 500 character toot suggests contentSnippet is just the non-html version of content.

In case that helps anyone, and in anyone wants to dispute that!

[robi]

@timconsidine you already did what I'd have suggested, testing and seeing what was given.

What happens if it's just an image or video with no text?

[timconsidine]

@robi hmmm, that's a good question.
I was under the impression that some text is mandatory.
But having tried it, Mastodon certainly allows it.
And the RSS feed looks like this :

{
"title": "xxxxxxx: “”",
"link": "https://xxxxxxxxxxxx",
"pubDate": "Sun, 26 Sep 2021 19:56:22 +0000",
"enclosure": {
"url": "https://xxxxxxxxx.png",
"length": "14690",
"type": "image/png"
},
"content": "",
"contentSnippet": "",
"guid": "https://xxxxxxx",
"isoDate": "2021-09-26T19:56:22.000Z"
},

So it works.
Although my n8n workflow to crosspost to Twitter would likely break, but I will try that later when I'm feeling braver.