better-feediverse 2.1.0

Connect an RSS Feed to Mastodon

This repo is a copy and updated version of edsu/feediverse

You can always view changes here: https://github.com/edsu/feediverse/compare/master...xopez:better_feediverse:master

Description

better_feediverse will read RSS/Atom feeds and send the messages as Mastodon posts. It's meant to add a little bit of spice to your timeline from other places. Please use it responsibly.

Install

pip install better_feediverse

Run

The first time you run better_feediverse you'll need to tell it your Mastodon instance and get an access token which it will save in a configuration file. If you don't specify a config file it will use ~/.better_feediverse:

better_feediverse

Once better_feediverse is configured you can add it to your crontab:

*/15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/better_feediverse    

Run better_feediverse --help to show the command line options.

Post Format

You can customize the post format by opening the configuration file (default is ~/.better_feediverse) and updating the template property of your feed. The default format is:

{title} {url}

If you want you can use {summary} in your template, and add boilerplate text like so:

Bookmark: {title} {url} {summary}

{hashtags} will look for tags in the feed entry and turn them into a space separated list of hashtags. For some feeds (e.g. youtube-rss) you should use {link} instead of {url}.

{content} is the whole content of the feed entry (with html-tags stripped). Please be aware that this might easily exceed Mastodon's default limit of 500 characters.