Mastodawn

I'm happy to share my new (and small) open source "project" - Masto-rss. A small and simple Mastodon bot that posts news from RSS feeds.
I made masto-rss to bring news websites that don't have fediverse accounts into our feeds. The best way to use it is in its docker container form (which is linked in the README.md file). I am adding features to it as I go. Right now, it is powering @ynetmivzakim. Check it out here:
https://github.com/aserper/masto-rss

GitHub - aserper/masto-rss: A Mastodon bot that posts RSS updates to a Mastodon account

A Mastodon bot that posts RSS updates to a Mastodon account - aserper/masto-rss

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Stephan Lichtenauer | נח סתו Dec 5, 2023

@0xamit Great, thanks a lot! Have been looking for something like this.

Running my feeds off @mastofeed service at the moment (which is great as a service!) but would love to move to something I can host myself in the future.

Clive Thompson Dec 5, 2023

@ynetmivzakim @0xamit

This looks terrific! Good work

Hans-Cees 🍋🌲🦔🦦🐝🦋🐛🚅🇸🇳🇵🇾🇹🇬🇹🇲Dec 5, 2023

@0xamit @ynetmivzakim I made a couple of scripts to use an outbox of a mastodon user as input for (in my case an rss feed on a website).
check it out on my pinned tweet.
You can see it work on https://www.bomengids.nl

European treeguide Bomengids.nl, partly in 5 languages: Deutsch, Spanish, Francais, English, Dutch

Tree species of Europe

Aral Balkan Dec 5, 2023

@0xamit @ynetmivzakim Nice :)

Meercat ✅  Dec 5, 2023

@0xamit @ynetmivzakim Thanks!

Martin Vermeer FCD Dec 5, 2023

@0xamit @ynetmivzakim How is this different from mastofeed? Installed that one yesterday...

@0xamit thanks for making this. Just an FYI that given how simple the requirements are if you use a plain Alpine 3.18 base image and just install python3 & py3-pip you can easily halve the size of the image compared to using the python base with all its extras.

Amit Serper Dec 5, 2023

@spad Cheers! Noted. I'll take care of it later

Amit Serper Dec 5, 2023

@spad Just did it! It is tiny indeed! Thanks so much for the tip. I'm a low-level guy, docker is too high level for me :)

@0xamit This is going to get bigger and more complicated than you want pretty quickly. I went down that path and then decided to leverage and contribute to an existing project instead. Here's an implementation: https://reader.leeholmes.com/. Still have yet to contribute my PRs upstream, but I haven't had to make massive changes.

Based on https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub/

Feed Converter

Amit Serper Dec 6, 2023

@Lee_Holmes A proper activitypub server seems to be a better (and the correct) way to go. However, for the moment, I prefer having a bot that simply posts to a Mastodon instance. Cool project though! I'll have a look

Flugunfähiger Seevogel Dec 5, 2023

@0xamit @ynetmivzakim @rrefresh hattest du nicht neulich sowas gesucht?

rrefresh Dec 5, 2023

@FlugunfSV ja hatte ich hab aber ne andere lösung dafür gefunden, muss nur noch den account einrichten. aber danke!

Seedy Three Sixty Dec 5, 2023

@0xamit @ynetmivzakim I could use this on @spews; could be a good replacement for Jetpack.

laurent Dec 6, 2023

@0xamit
Cc @hanbollar for possible automation :)

@lobau @0xamit this is going to be so much more helpful than the workaround i had planned - love it

Amit Serper Dec 6, 2023

@hanbollar @lobau Happy to help, it's fairly simple to use, especially if you're using docker. There's one small thing that I should update in the README - If you use it with docker, make sure you set a bind directory between /state on the container and whatever directory on your machine, to the state of which feeds were already posted

Syd Dec 6, 2023

@0xamit could it work with GoToSocial? I'd love to have it on a small scale.

matclab Dec 6, 2023

@0xamit
I was ready to write one but discovered feedsin.space that did the job for me.
@ynetmivzakim @aral