Under-the-radar late night launch: RSS Parrot is live! It talks like Mastodon, but it doesn't walk like Mastodon. BUT! It will relay any RSS feed straight into your timeline.
Turn Mastodon into your very own feed reader. Follow anything that has an RSS feed and get a toot about new posts.
How? Mention @birb with the address you want to follow.
More details at https://rss-parrot.net. Boost for visibility :)
@twilliability Cool!
Another project, MastoFeeder, didn't handle ATOM or query strings (?this=that&the=other). Folks directly requested new feeds by hand-editing usernames, so MastoFeeder never got to see unmangled urls.
https://github.com/jehna/mastofeeder
Example CGPGrey YT ATOM feed:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2C_jShtL725hvbm1arSV9w
OpenRSS is a service that generates RSS for arbitrary sites. Mitigated the shortcomings. Parrot doesn't have those limitations but may benefit for sites lacking feeds.
https://openrss.org/
@twilliability @birb I broke something 
I just setup an atom feed for my site today and tried to make a parrot account for it. It came back with just an `@` that points to `/u`
https://hachyderm.io/deck/@birb@rss-parrot.net/111690395492612609
(I'm using a rust crate to build the feed and it's very possible I've got something set up wrong, but it's working in NetNewsWire)
Sadly many Mastodon instances block bots that mirror other platforms, including RSS
@twilliability @birb Amazing! This finally revived the thing I liked most about Google Reader - the ability to follow both feeds and people in the same place, and to have people who follow me be alerted to things in my RSS feeds that they don't follow that I have starred.
Gonna start importing my Inoreader feeds right now!
@twilliability @birb Now, can I do two in one post?
@birb https://sketchplanations.com/rss https://davidallengreen.com/feed/
@[email protected] Hm, I can't find a website address in this message.
If you want me to parrot an RSS feed for you, mention me in a message with a single website address. Include the https:// part at the beginning!
@bencurthoys I got your RSS feed!
Follow this automated account to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline: @www.philosophersbeard.org
☝️ Don't forget to follow the account now!
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@[email protected] Hm, I can't find a website address in this message.
If you want me to parrot an RSS feed for you, mention me in a message with a single website address. Include the https:// part at the beginning!
@twilliability Very cool. I tested with a site and it replied, but the account appears to not have been generated. Listed on your web page but account link is a 404.
@warrows github.com/gugray/rss-parrot
It posts a reply to the person who requested a feed, a public reply, so that's stored on any server that follows the service account.
@twilliability @[email protected] Nice, thanks!
@da_ros I got your RSS feed!
Follow this automated account to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline: @www.theguardian.com.sport.nfl
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NFL | Sport | The Guardian
@[email protected] Great, let's try some more then
@[email protected] Hm, I can't find an RSS feed for this site.
Is the address right? It can also happen that the site is temporarily down, or it doesn't have an RSS feed.
@da_ros I got your RSS feed!
Follow this automated account to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline: @bsky.app.profile.decrypt.co
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@decrypt.co on Bluesky
@da_ros I got your RSS feed!
Follow this automated account to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline: @www.espn.com
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www.espn.com - NFL
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]
@da_ros I got your RSS feed!
Follow this automated account to get all new posts in your Mastodon timeline: @bsky.app.profile.bsky.app
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@bsky.app on Bluesky
@[email protected] Hm, I can't find an RSS feed for this site.
Is the address right? It can also happen that the site is temporarily down, or it doesn't have an RSS feed.
@birb Hey @MonaApp I'm having difficulty with following these rss profiles in your app. When I tap the link in the mastodon app it takes me straight to the profile and I can follow it from there but when I do it in Mona the link takes me to a website instead, Mona does not seem to recognise the link as a profile link.
I've tested this on many different rss links and they work fine on the mastodon app but not in Mona.
Is this something you can look at?
@[email protected] Hm, I can't find a website address in this message.
If you want me to parrot an RSS feed for you, mention me in a message with a single website address. Include the https:// part at the beginning!
@twilliability How quickly should we get a response? I tried this last night, and several times (from a couple different clients) this morning, and have no responses, and nothing's showing up in the master feed list.
I can see other people's parroted feeds -- I'm just not sure my request is getting to the bot.
@twilliability This is awesome and something I’ve wished existed for ages! 💜
Minor bug report: some URL encoded characters coming through: https://rss-parrot.net/u/eurogamer.net/status/1704232245944629476
I’d also love the favicon (or even better the high quality apple-touch-icon thingy) as the user avatar to differentiate feeds. (I imagine you’ve already thought of this!)
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