robbi5 / ka-feedr

kA-feedr: publish feeds to twitter, with delay

kA-feedr checks feeds that you specify for new content and queues posts on your twitter account.

Features

• can check multiple feed urls
• RFC 5005 - feed paging support
• shortens tweet text to (currently) 280 chars
• appends … to text if it got cut off
• closes open parantheses if text got cut off
• tweets multiple new feed items with a delay of one minute in between (see DELAY_BETWEEN_TWEETS)
• configurable with environment variables
• SIMULATE mode which suppresses tweeting
• NEWER_THAN setting for working with already existing feeds
• and more. the source is short, read it :)

Usage

Use python3. Install dependencies with pip install -r requirements.txt.

We're using kA-feedr for multiple kleineAnfragen twitter accounts as cronjobs:

CONSUMER_KEY="..."
CONSUMER_SECRET="..."
NEWER_THAN="2018-06-06T00:00:00Z"
#SIMULATE=1

* * * * * DATABASE="/srv/feedr/db/anfragen_bt.sqlite3" ACCESS_TOKEN="..." ACCESS_SECRET="..." /srv/feedr/bin/python3 /srv/feedr/feedr.py "https://kleineanfragen.de/bundestag.atom?feedformat=twitter" >> /srv/feedr/log/anfragen_bt.log

* * * * * DATABASE="/srv/feedr/db/anfragen_hh.sqlite3" ACCESS_TOKEN="..." ACCESS_SECRET="..." /srv/feedr/bin/python3 /srv/feedr/feedr.py "https://kleineanfragen.de/hamburg.atom?feedformat=twitter" >> /srv/feedr/log/anfragen_hh.log

Thanks

Thanks to @housed for the inspiration with feedr. This project was roughly based on it and is now a complete rewrite.