massyn / rss-to-mastodon

Publish RSS feeds to Mastodon

rss-to-mastodon

Publish RSS feeds to Mastodon

What it is?

This is a simple bot I created to read a number of RSS feeds, and publish the result to a Mastodon user.

How it works

• The script is scheduled via GitHub Actions and runs every 3 hours.
• It reads the user's timeline via an API call, to determine the last time a status update was performed.
• Using the feedparser library, a list of RSS feeds are read.
• Any post that is greater than the last time a status update was made, is then posted to Mastodon through an API call.

Getting started

The config.yaml is split up in different sections, allowing the bot to post multiple feeds to multiple Mastodon channels.

Environment variables *_ENDPOINT and *_ACCESS_KEY will be used. Create a set for each section in the config file.

• {section}_ENDPOINT
• {section}_ACCESS_KEY