Add and document health API. Fixes #202

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mastodon/Mastodon.py b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
index 308c428..f0063e5 100644
--- a/mastodon/Mastodon.py
+++ b/mastodon/Mastodon.py
@@ -654,6 +654,13 @@ class Mastodon:
         """
         return self.__api_request('GET', '/api/v1/instance/peers')
 
+    @api_version("3.0.0", "3.0.0", "3.0.0")
+    def instance_health(self):
+        """
+        Basic health check. Returns True if healthy, False if not.
+        """
+        return self.__api_request('GET', '/health', parse=False).decode("utf-8") == "success"
+
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