A mastodon rss reader & toot bot.
Very simply, a script that reads a list of RSS feeds and toots anything new!
We use Redis to remember old posts.
Major inspiration to be found below.
MetaWarrior Army uses this project to run news bots at the following accounts:
import time, os, re, json, csv, requests, redis, pickle, argparse
from mastodon import Mastodon
from datetime import datetime
from dateutil import parser
import feedparser
import tokenlib_public
as you can probably guess:
tokens are storen in tokenlib_public.py
You will need to create this file first. Example can be found in tokenlib_public_example.py
This is where you set your bot name.
You must have a local Redis server to run this script. The redis DB password is stored in tokenlib_public.py.
First, initialize the Redis DB using
./run.sh i
This will initialize the Redis DB and store the first batch of news. From this point you can run the command normally, which will only post new stories every 1 minute.
./run.sh
New posts are collected and tooted out every 20 seconds.
Edit run.sh to adjust sleep to increase or decrease interval.