mastodon-rss-bot

RSS is not supported at this moment. Only Weibo.com forwarding is working at this moment (LOL)

Configuration

Setup

Currently this bot utilizes Airtable (aff link) for storing bot configuration and statuses.

You should create a Airtable base and then create a table named "Bot List" (name must be matched exactly) with the following columns.

For a string column, choose Single line text.
For a string (multiline) column, choose Long text.
For a bool column, choose Checkbox.

Name                       string
Enabled                    bool
Registered                 bool
Activated                  bool
BotInstance                string
BotUsername                string
BotEmail                   string
BotName                    string
BotBio                     string
BotAvatarUrl               string
BotApplicationName         string
BotApplicationUrl          string
RSSUrl                     string
RSSTemplate                string
BotApplicationId           string
BotApplicationClientId     string
BotApplicationClientSecret string
BotPassword                string
BotAvatarUploaded          bool
LastCheckedAt              string
LastPostedAt               string
RSSLastGUIDs               string (multiline)
CleanAndReset              bool

Usage

Create a record like this: (leaving other fields empty)

Enabled: false
Registered: false
Activated: false
BotInstance: pawoo.net
BotUsername: oh-my-yummy-bot
BotEmail: oh-my-yummy-bot@oh-your-domain.com
BotName: Oh My Yummy Bot
BotBio: Another mastodon-rss-bot bot maintained by @nobody
BotAvatarUrl: https://media.mstdn.jp/images/accounts/avatars/000/125/787/original/408fca009ef382f0.png
BotApplicationName: mastodon-rss-bot
BotApplicationUrl: https://github.com/orzFly/mastodon-rss-bot
RSSUrl: weibo:1113218211

Set Enabled to true.
Run mastodon-rss-bot. The bot will register the account for you. You will find Registered changed to true in Airtable.
Check your e-mail inbox and confirm the account.
Set Activated to true.
Set up a cron job to run mastodon-rss-bot.
Enjoy™

Environment Variables

AIRTABLE_API_KEY Airtable API Key (A random string looks like keyXXXXXXXX)
AIRTABLE_BASE_ID Airtable Base ID (A random string looks like appXXXXXXXX)
RAVEN_DSN Sentry Integration (A random string looks like https://<key>:<secret>@sentry.io/<project>)

Building

glide install
go build -o mastodon-rss-bot
AIRTABLE_API_KEY=keyXXXXXX AIRTABLE_BASE_ID=appXXXXXX ./mastodon-rss-bot

License

Copyright (C) 2017  Yeechan Lu

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

orzFly / mastodon-rss-bot