Connect an RSS Feed to Mastodon
Project description
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.
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