rss-update-bot

ava fox

a mastodon bot that posts when an rss feed updates

Installation

download binary from releases

copy provided example config and populate it with valid tokens

if poll-interval is not provided, 3 hours is used

Usage

specify a config file to use: ./rss-bot -c CONFIG

pass in an RSS feed url: ./rss-bot URL+

full usage example: ./rss-bot -c your.config https://my.cool.blog/rss/feed.xml

multiple feeds: ./rss-bot -c your.config https://my.cool.blog/rss/feed.xml https://my.second.blog/rss/feed.xml

Building

• install a lisp (Roswell)

• create a ~/common-lisp directory

• clone this repo, and the framework's repo

• run a few lisp commands

($ denotes a system shell, * denotes a lisp repl)

$ mkdir ~/common-lisp
$ git clone https://github.com/compufox/rss-update-bot ~/common-lisp/rss-update-bot
$ git clone https://github.com/compufox/glacier ~/common-lisp/glacier
$ ros run

* (ql:quickload :rss-update-bot)
* (asdf:make :rss-update-bot)

if everything goes smoothly, you should have created a binary: ~/common-lisp/rss-update-bot/bin/rss-bot

License

NPLv1+