diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eb1506d..bfe30d3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ The following services are currently supported:
 
 * Facebook: user profiles, groups, and communities (aka visitor posts)
 * Instagram: user profiles, hashtags, and locations
+* Mastodon: user profiles and toots (single or thread)
 * Reddit: users, subreddits, and searches (via Pushshift)
 * Telegram: channels
 * Twitter: users, user profiles, hashtags, searches, tweets (single or surrounding thread), list posts, and trends
diff --git a/snscrape/modules/mastodon.py b/snscrape/modules/mastodon.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7cf3e1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/snscrape/modules/mastodon.py
@@ -0,0 +1,340 @@
+__all__ = ['Toot', 'Boost', 'Attachment', 'Poll', 'PollOption', 'User', 'CustomEmoji', 'MastodonProfileScraper', 'MastodonTootScraperMode', 'MastodonTootScraper']
+
+
+import bs4
+import dataclasses
+import datetime
+import enum
+import json
+import logging
+import snscrape.base
+import time
+import typing
+import urllib.parse
+
+
+_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class Toot(snscrape.base.Item):
+	url: str
+	id: str
+	user: 'User'
+	date: datetime.datetime
+	text: str
+	spoilerText: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	attachments: typing.Optional[typing.List['Attachment']] = None
+	links: typing.Optional[typing.List[str]] = None
+	mentionedUsers: typing.Optional[typing.List['User']] = None
+	hashtags: typing.Optional[typing.List[str]] = None
+	poll: typing.Optional['Poll'] = None
+
+	def __str__(self):
+		return self.url
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class Boost(snscrape.base.Item):
+	user: 'User'
+	toot: Toot
+
+	def __str__(self):
+		# Boosts don't have their own URLs
+		return str(self.toot)
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class Attachment:
+	url: str
+	name: str
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class Poll:
+	id: str
+	expirationDate: datetime.datetime
+	multiple: bool
+	options: typing.List['PollOption']
+	votesCount: int
+	votersCount: typing.Optional[int] = None # Available since version 3.0.0 (commit 3babf846)
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class PollOption:
+	title: str
+	votesCount: int
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class User(snscrape.base.Entity):
+	account: str # @username@domain.invalid
+	displayName: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	displayNameWithCustomEmojis: typing.Optional[typing.List[typing.Union[str, 'CustomEmoji']]] = None
+	avatarUrl: typing.Optional[str] = None
+	_url: typing.Optional[str] = None
+
+	@property
+	def url(self):
+		if self._url:
+			return self._url
+		return f'https://{"/@".join(reversed(self.account[1:].split("@")))}'
+
+	def __str__(self):
+		return self.url
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass
+class CustomEmoji:
+	shortName: str
+	url: str
+	staticUrl: str
+
+
+class _MastodonCommonScraper(snscrape.base.Scraper):
+	def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+		super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+		self._headers = {'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0', 'Accept-Language': 'en-US,en;q=0.5'}
+		self._lastRequest = 0
+
+	def _rate_limited_get(self, *args, **kwargs):
+		if (diff := time.time() - self._lastRequest) < 3:
+			time.sleep(3 - diff)
+		self._lastRequest = time.time()
+		return self._get(*args, **kwargs)
+
+	def _entries_to_items(self, entries, url):
+		for entry in entries:
+			if entry.find('a', class_ = 'load-more'):
+				continue
+
+			tootKwargs = {}
+
+			info = entry.find('div', class_ = 'status__info')
+			if not info: # Before 2.5.0 (commit bb71538b)
+				info = entry.find('div', class_ = 'status__header')
+			if not info: # Detailed status (i.e. toot page rather than timeline)?
+				info = entry.find('div', class_ = 'detailed-status__meta')
+			link = info.find('a', class_ = 'status__relative-time')
+			if not link: # Detailed status?
+				link = info.find('a', class_ = 'detailed-status__datetime')
+			tootKwargs['url'] = link['href']
+			tootKwargs['id'] = tootKwargs['url'].rsplit('/', 1)[1]
+			tootKwargs['date'] = datetime.datetime.strptime(info.find('data', class_ = 'dt-published')['value'], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S+00:00')
+
+			userKwargs = {}
+			userLink = info.find('a', class_ = 'status__display-name')
+			if not userLink: # Detailed status?
+				userLink = entry.find('a', class_ = 'detailed-status__display-name')
+			userNameSpan = userLink.find('span', class_ = 'display-name')
+			userKwargs['account'] = userNameSpan.find('span').text.strip()
+			if userKwargs['account'].count('@') == 1: # Ancient versions don't include the instance for posts from accounts on the instance itself
+				userKwargs['account'] = self._url_to_account(userLink['href'])
+			userKwargs['_url'] = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, userLink['href'])
+			userKwargs['displayName'], userKwargs['displayNameWithCustomEmojis'] = self._display_name(userNameSpan.find('strong'), url)
+			userKwargs['avatarUrl'] = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, userLink.find('img', class_ = 'u-photo')['src'])
+			tootKwargs['user'] = User(**userKwargs)
+
+			content = entry.find('div', class_ = 'status__content')
+			if not content.find(class_ = 'status__content__spoiler-link'):
+				tootKwargs['text'] = '\n\n'.join(p.text for p in content.find_all('p'))
+			else:
+				tootKwargs['text'] = content.find('span', class_ = 'p-summary').text
+				tootKwargs['spoilerText'] = '\n\n'.join(p.text for p in content.find('div', class_ = 'e-content').find_all('p'))
+
+			if (attachmentsDiv := entry.find('div', class_ = 'attachment-list')):
+				attachments = []
+				for a in attachmentsDiv.find_all('a'):
+					attachments.append(Attachment(url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, a['href']), name = a.text.strip()))
+				tootKwargs['attachments'] = attachments
+			elif (mediaGalleryDiv := entry.find('div', attrs = {'data-component': 'MediaGallery'})): # Before 2.7.0 (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/6714)
+				o = json.loads(mediaGalleryDiv['data-props'])
+				attachments = []
+				for medium in o['media']:
+					attachments.append(Attachment(url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, medium['url']), name = medium['url'].rsplit('/', 1)[-1].strip()))
+				tootKwargs['attachments'] = attachments
+			elif (attachmentsDiv := entry.find('div', class_ = 'status__attachments')): # Before 2.3.0 (commit 2bbf987a)
+				attachments = []
+				for a in attachmentsDiv.find_all('a'):
+					attachments.append(Attachment(url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, a['href']), name = a['href'].rsplit('/', 1)[1]))
+				tootKwargs['attachments'] = attachments
+
+			links = []
+			mentionedUsers = []
+			hashtags = []
+			for a in content.find_all('a'):
+				cls = a.get('class', [])
+				if 'mention' in cls and 'u-url' in cls:
+					mentionUrl = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, a['href'])
+					mentionedUsers.append(User(account = self._url_to_account(mentionUrl), _url = mentionUrl))
+				elif 'mention' in cls and 'hashtag' in cls:
+					hashtags.append(a.text.strip())
+				else:
+					links.append(urllib.parse.urljoin(url, a['href']))
+			if links:
+				tootKwargs['links'] = links
+			if mentionedUsers:
+				tootKwargs['mentionedUsers'] = mentionedUsers
+			if hashtags:
+				tootKwargs['hashtags'] = hashtags
+
+			if (pollDiv := entry.find('div', attrs = {'data-component': 'Poll'})):
+				o = json.loads(pollDiv['data-props'])
+				pollKwargs = {}
+				pollKwargs['id'] = o['poll']['id']
+				pollKwargs['expirationDate'] = datetime.datetime.strptime(o['poll']['expires_at'], '%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.%fZ')
+				pollKwargs['multiple'] = o['poll']['multiple']
+				pollKwargs['options'] = [PollOption(title = op['title'], votesCount = op['votes_count']) for op in o['poll']['options']]
+				pollKwargs['votesCount'] = o['poll']['votes_count']
+				if 'voters_count' in o['poll']: # 3.0.0 (commit 3babf846)
+					pollKwargs['votersCount'] = o['poll']['voters_count']
+				tootKwargs['poll'] = Poll(**pollKwargs)
+
+			toot = Toot(**tootKwargs)
+
+			# Boosts
+			prepend = entry.find('div', class_ = 'status__prepend')
+			if not prepend: # Before 2.5.0 (commit bb71538b)
+				prepend = entry.find('div', class_ = 'pre-header')
+			if prepend and prepend.find('i', class_ = 'fa-retweet'): # Is a boost
+				userKwargs = {}
+				userLink = prepend.find('a', class_ = 'status__display-name')
+				# The user is always on this instance since that's the only place where boosts are shown, hence there is no explicit account span. Reconstruct from URL.
+				userUrl = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, userLink['href'])
+				assert userUrl.count('/') == 3 and userUrl.count('/@') == 1
+				userKwargs['account'] = '@'.join(reversed(userUrl.split('/')[2:]))
+				userKwargs['displayName'], userKwargs['displayNameWithCustomEmojis'] = self._display_name(userLink.find('strong'), url)
+				toot = Boost(user = User(**userKwargs), toot = toot)
+
+			yield toot
+
+	def _display_name(self, strong, url):
+		outPlain = []
+		outFull = []
+		hasCustomEmoji = False
+		for child in strong.children:
+			if isinstance(child, bs4.element.NavigableString):
+				outPlain.append(str(child))
+				outFull.append(str(child))
+			elif child.name == 'img' and 'custom-emoji' in child.get('class', []):
+				hasCustomEmoji = True
+				outPlain.append(child['alt'])
+				outFull.append(CustomEmoji(shortName = child['alt'], url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, child['data-original']), staticUrl = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, child['data-static'])))
+			elif child.name == 'img' and 'emojione' in child.get('class', []):
+				# Version 2.0.0 (which first added custom emojis) to 2.9.4: no data-* attributes, only gets one of the URLs with no (easy, reliable) way of knowing which it is.
+				hasCustomEmoji = True
+				outPlain.append(child['alt'])
+				outFull.append(CustomEmoji(shortName = child['alt'], url = urllib.parse.urljoin(url, child['src'])))
+			else:
+				_logger.warning(f'Unexpected display name child: {child!r}')
+		return ''.join(outPlain), outFull if hasCustomEmoji else None
+
+	@staticmethod
+	def _url_to_account(url):
+		if url.count('/') == 3 and url.count('/@') == 1:
+			return '@'.join(reversed(url.split('/')[2:]))
+		if url.count('/') == 4 and '/users/' in url: # E.g. Pleroma, also supported by Mastodon
+			return '@' + '@'.join(reversed(url.split('/')[2::2]))
+		if url.count('/') == 4 and '/accounts/' in url: # E.g. Peertube
+			return '@' + '@'.join(reversed(url.split('/')[2::2]))
+		if url.count('/') == 4 and '/profile/' in url: # E.g. Friendica
+			return '@' + '@'.join(reversed(url.split('/')[2::2]))
+		raise ValueError('Unrecognised account URL format')
+
+
+class MastodonProfileScraper(_MastodonCommonScraper):
+	name = 'mastodon-profile'
+
+	def __init__(self, account, *args, **kwargs):
+		super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+		if account.startswith('@') and account.count('@') == 2:
+			account, domain = account[1:].split('@')
+			url = f'https://{domain}/@{account}'
+		else:
+			url = account
+		self._url = url
+
+	def get_items(self):
+		initial = True
+		while True:
+			if initial:
+				r = self._rate_limited_get(f'{self._url}/with_replies', headers = self._headers)
+				if r.status_code not in (200, 404):
+					raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+				if r.status_code == 404: # Possibly an old instance where with_replies doesn't exist, try without that.
+					r = self._rate_limited_get(self._url, headers = self._headers)
+					if r.status_code not in (200, 404):
+						raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+					if r.status_code == 404:
+						_logger.warning('Account does not exist')
+						return
+					_logger.warning('Old Mastodon instance, cannot retrieve reply toots')
+				initial = False
+			else:
+				r = self._rate_limited_get(url, headers = self._headers)
+				if r.status_code != 200:
+					raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+			soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
+
+			yield from self._entries_to_items(soup.find('div', class_ = 'activity-stream').find_all('div', class_ = 'entry'), r.url)
+
+			nextA = soup.find('a', class_ = 'load-more', href = lambda x: '?max_id=' in x or '&max_id=' in x)
+			if not nextA: # Before 2.5.0 (commit bb71538b)
+				paginationDiv = soup.find('div', class_ = 'pagination')
+				if paginationDiv:
+					nextA = paginationDiv.find('a', class_ = 'next')
+			if not nextA: # End of pagination
+				break
+			url = urllib.parse.urljoin(r.url, nextA['href'])
+
+	@classmethod
+	def cli_setup_parser(cls, subparser):
+		subparser.add_argument('account', type = snscrape.base.nonempty_string('account'), help = 'A Mastodon account. This can be either a URL to the profile page or a string of the form @account@instance.example.org')
+
+	@classmethod
+	def cli_from_args(cls, args):
+		return cls.cli_construct(args, args.account)
+
+
+class MastodonTootScraperMode(enum.Enum):
+	SINGLE = 'single'
+	THREAD = 'thread'
+
+	@classmethod
+	def cli_from_args(cls, args):
+		if args.thread:
+			return cls.THREAD
+		return cls.SINGLE
+
+
+class MastodonTootScraper(_MastodonCommonScraper):
+	name = 'mastodon-toot'
+
+	def __init__(self, url, mode, *args, **kwargs):
+		super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+		self._url = url
+		self._mode = mode
+
+	def get_items(self):
+		r = self._rate_limited_get(self._url, headers = self._headers)
+		if r.status_code == 404:
+			_logger.warning('Toot does not exist')
+			return
+		if r.status_code != 200:
+			raise snscrape.base.ScraperException(f'Got status code {r.status_code}')
+		soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(r.text, 'lxml')
+		if self._mode is MastodonTootScraperMode.SINGLE:
+			status = soup.find('div', class_ = 'detailed-status')
+			entry = status.parent
+			yield from self._entries_to_items([entry], r.url)
+		elif self._mode is MastodonTootScraperMode.THREAD:
+			yield from self._entries_to_items(soup.find('div', class_ = 'activity-stream').find_all('div', class_ = 'entry'), r.url)
+
+	@classmethod
+	def cli_setup_parser(cls, subparser):
+		subparser.add_argument('--thread', action = 'store_true', help = 'Collect thread around the toot referenced by the URL')
+		subparser.add_argument('url', type = snscrape.base.nonempty_string('url'), help = 'A URL for a toot')
+
+	@classmethod
+	def cli_from_args(cls, args):
+		return cls.cli_construct(args, args.url, MastodonTootScraperMode.cli_from_args(args))