feedostodon

This script checks a list of RSS feeds for new entries and posts them to a Mastodon account using the Mastodon API.

Installation

1. Clone this repository to your local machine.
2. Create a virtual environment and activate it.
3. Install the required packages using pip install -r requirements.txt.
4. Create a Mastodon account and obtain an access token and a client secret.
5. Create a mastodon_credentials.json file with the following format:

{
    "client_id": "feedostodon",
    "client_secret": "your_client_secret_here",
    "access_token": "your_access_token_here",
    "api_base_url": "https://your.instance.url"
}

6. Create a feed_urls.json file with a list of RSS feed URLs to check.

[
    "https://example-one.com/feed",
    "https://example-two.com/rss"
]

7. Run the script using python main.py.

Usage

The script will check each feed for new entries and post them to the Mastodon account specified in mastodon_credentials.json. The script will remember the last time it checked each feed in last_checked_times.json and only post new entries.

License

This script is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.