Breaks on Mastodon RSS feed

[captn3m0]

I've been trying to use this RSS feed, from an account I run: https://tatooine.club/@dykindia.rss

Relevant config is straight forward:

    "provider": "rss",
            "config": {
                "rss_path": "https://tatooine.club/@dykindia.rss",
                "limit": 1
            }
        }

However, the result is very confusing, since it seems to be getting a noscript tag that's not present in the actual RSS feed.

I've been running goosepaper with docker, so haven't gotten around to debugging it yet.

[j6k4m8]

Hey @captn3m0, thanks so much for the bug report! This looks to me like we're definitely "trying too hard" to get RSS content from the web; I think the answer here is for us to have a separate Mastodon provider so that we can parse the (relatively consistent) ActivityPub responses from Mastodon servers. Thoughts?

[captn3m0]

I don't understand the "trying too hard" part - given a properly formatted RSS feed, it should parse the feed right? Why doesn't that work?

It might be easier to use the Mastodon API if we go down this route, instead of the ActivityPub, which might require too much work.

[j6k4m8]

hey @captn3m0 thanks for the help tracking this down — added a Mastodon StoryProvider in #82 just for this! Will be on PyPI in a few min.