mastorss/README.adoc

mastorss reads RSS feeds and posts the items via the Mastodon API. Does not support Atom at the moment.

Each <item> in feeds must have <link>, <title> and <description>.

Install

Dependencies

• Tested OS: Linux

• C++ compiler (tested: gcc 9)

• cmake (at least: 3.9)

• boost (at least: 1.62)

• mastodon-cpp (at least: 0.111.3)

• jsoncpp (at least: 1.7)

Get sourcecode

Development version

git clone https://schlomp.space/tastytea/mastorss.git

Compile

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
cmake --build .

Install with make install.

Usage

Put watchwords.json into ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/mastorss/ ^[1]. Launch with profile name. The first occurence of every watchword in an RSS item will be turned into a hashtag. For profile-specific watchwords see the example in watchwords.json. In the first run only the newest entry is posted.

The profile can’t be named "global".

Example session

% mastorss example

Example config file

${HOME}/.config/mastorss/config-example.json

    {
        "example": {
            "access_token": "123abc",
            "append": "#bot",
            "feedurl": "https:\/\/example.com\/feed.rss",
            "fixes":
            [
                "delete this",
                "<p>[Rr]ead more(\.{3}|…)</p>"
            ],
            "instance": "botsin.space",
            "interval" : 600,
            "max_size": 400,
            "skip":
            [
                "If the entry starts with this, skip it",
                "Skip me too!"
            ],
            "titles_as_cw" : false,
            "titles_only": false
        }
    }

Error codes

Same as mastodon-cpp, plus:

Code	Explanation
1	Could not send post for unknown reasons.

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1. ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME} is usually ~/.config/