Issue:Saved search that can be followed

Priority 3 Created 2023-05-13

Thanks for putting up Tootfinder -- it's filling a need that many people have expressed and I see lots of excitement for it.. I have two wish-list items that I wanted to send your way in case they have any value:
1. search for people
2. create a 'saved search' that can be followed from a Mastodon account (I have no idea how that would work)

2023-05-14: Every search has it's own URL like

https://tootfinder.ch/search/turkey

This search can be bookmarked and returns a HTML page. The REST API offers the URL

http://tootfinder.ch/rest/api/search/turkey

which returns a JSON feed as a search result and the URL

https://www.tootfinder.ch/rest/api/activitypub/search/turkey

return it as a collection.

We could wrap rather easily the search result in an RSS feed, too.

However, a Mastodon client cannot follow an URL or a feed. The Tootfinder API is actually passive. To make it active, we would need to add an ActivityPub server that implements this feature or create a bots factory, creating bots for each saved query.

This is an interesting project, but seems rather complex, so I move it to priority 3.