Feed2toot

Feed2toot automatically parses rss feeds, identifies new posts and posts them on the Mastodon social network. For the full documentation, read it online.

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Quick Install

• Install Feed2toot from PyPI

    # pip3 install feed2toot
  

• Install Feed2toot from sources (see the installation guide for full details) Installation Guide

    # tar zxvf feed2toot-0.6.tar.gz
    # cd feed2toot
    # python3 setup.py install
    # # or
    # python3 setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/bin
  

Create the authorization for the Feed2toot app

• Just launch the following command::

    $ register_feed2toot_app
  

Use Feed2toot

• Create or modify feed2toot.ini file in order to configure feed2toot:

    [mastodon]
    instance_url=https://mastodon.social
    user_credentials=feed2toot_usercred.txt
    client_credentials=feed2toot_clientcred.txt
    ; Default visibility is public, but you can override it:
    ; toot_visibility=unlisted
  
    [cache]
    cachefile=cache.db
  
    [rss]
    uri=https://www.journalduhacker.net/rss
    tweet={title} {link}
  
    [hashtaglist]
    several_words_hashtags_list=hashtags.txt
  

• Launch Feed2toot

    $ feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
  

Authors

• Carl Chenet chaica@ohmytux.com
• Antoine Beaupré anarcat@debian.org
• First developed by Todd Eddy

License

This software comes under the terms of the GPLv3+. Previously under MIT license. See the LICENSE file for the complete text of the license.