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NAME

mastorss - Another RSS to Mastodon bot.

SYNOPSIS

mastorss [--help|--version] <profile>

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

--help: Show help message.
--version: Show version, copyright and license.

USAGE

Put watchwords.json into ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/mastorss/. 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 is the identifier for a feed and can’t be named "global".

Example 1. Launch mastorss with the profile “example”.

% mastorss example

Configuration

If the profile does not exist yet, a configuration will be created interactively and then saved to ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/mastorss/config-<profile>.json.

access_token: The API token needed to communicate with the Mastodon API on the instance you’re using to post.
append: This string will be appended to every post.
feedurl: The URI of the source feed.
fixes: Array of regular expressions that should be deleted from the text. For information about the syntax see perlre(1).
instance: Hostname of the instance you’re using to post.
interval: Time to wait between posts.
max_size: Maximum number of characters a post can have.
skip: Array of strings with titles of posts that should be skipped. Matched against the beginning of the title; this means: “Good Day” will match “Good Day in Happytown” but not “A Good Day in Happytown”.
titles_as_cw: If true, the title will be used as the subject (also known as spoiler warning or content warning) of the post.
titles_only: If true, only post titles, no descriptions.

EXAMPLES

Configuration file

{
    "example" :
    {
        "access_token" : "123abc",
        "append" : "#bot",
        "feedurl" : "https://example.com/feed.rss",
        "fixes" :
        [
            "delete this",
            "<p>[Rr]ead more(\.{3}|…)</p>"
        ],
        "instance" : "newsbots.eu",
        "interval" : 600,
        "max_size" : 500,
        "skip" :
        [
            "If the title starts with this, skip it",
            "Skip me too!"
        ],
        "titles_as_cw" : true,
        "titles_only" : false
    }
}

PROTOCOL SUPPORT

Currently only HTTP and HTTPS are supported.

PROXY SERVERS

mastorss supports HTTP proxies set via the environment variable http_proxy. Accepted format: \http://[user[:password]@]host[:port]/ No SOCKS proxy support yet, sorry.

Example 2. Use mastorss with a proxy server

% http_proxy="http://localhost:3128/" mastorss example

FILES

Configuration file directory: ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/mastorss/

${XDG_CONFIG_HOME} is usually ~/.config.

ERROR CODES

Code	Explanation
1	No profile specified.
2	Network error.
3	File error.
4	Mastodon API error.
5	JSON error, most likely the file is wrongly formatted.
9	Unknown error.

DEBUGGING

Define the variable MASTORSS_DEBUG to enable debug output.

Example 3. Debug mastorss while using the profile “example”.

MASTORSS_DEBUG=1 mastorss example

REPORTING BUGS

Bugtracker: https://schlomp.space/tastytea/mastorss/issues

E-mail: tastytea@tastytea.de

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