post from rss feed, poor man's bot

[nikoss]

How I imagine it (as a user):

• You create a new account in mastodon.

• You mark this account as a bot, or semi-bot.

• A new field/option appears:

  (optional)
  Enter an RSS feed (?) [<--help link/icon]:

  ---

  Renew every |_ _| hours.

• You enter your website's rss feed.

• One more field appears:

  (optional)
  Enter another RSS feed:

  ---

  Renew every |_ _| hours.

• And so on...

• The stream of these rss feeds gets posted as toots, automatically.

Similar to issue #10134 (?), but somehow different.

Why?

• So that people can follow a website's rss feed; Like (or not), comment, etc... basically, interact with it.

• So that people can find search results from rss feeds, as well (I think that established search engines completely ignore them).

• So as to popularise rss feeds, both, for website publishers, as well as for visitors.

• So I can publish my website's feed, without having any programming knowledge, root access to a server, set up of python environment (?), etc, etc.

[nightpool]

Since mastodon uses activitypub, an open protocol, it's easy for developers to make one-off applications like this, without it needing to be supported by mastodon proper. Someone has already built this tool for RSS feeds! you can use it here: https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/

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On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:25 AM nikoss ***@***.***> wrote: How I imagine it (as a user): - You create a new account in mastodon. - You mark this account as a bot, or semi-bot. - A new field/option appears: (optional) Enter an RSS feed (?) [<--help link/icon]: ------------------------------ Renew every |_ _| hours. - You enter your website's rss feed. - One more field appears: (optional) Enter another RSS feed: ------------------------------ Renew every |_ _| hours. - And so on... - - The stream of these rss feeds gets posted as toots, automatically. Similar to issue #10134 <#10134> (?), but somehow different. Why? - So that people can follow a website's rss feed; Like (or not), comment, etc... basically, interact with it. - So that people can find search results from rss feeds, as well (I think that established search engines completely ignore them). - So as to popularise rss feeds, both, for website publishers, as well as for visitors. - So I can publish my website's feed, without having any programming knowledge, root access to a server, set up of python environment (?), etc, etc. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#11587>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABZCV44CU7MPAWI64BU3TTQE7U25ANCNFSM4IMPIG5A> .

[hermann-san]

@nightpool unfortunately the tool link death.
The only RSS2Mastodon bot I know is this one, but it's not so easy to use.
RSS to Mastodon https://gitlab.com/chaica/feed2toot

and a few other useful bridges
Twitter to Mastodon https://github.com/mashirozx/tweet2toot
or Mastodon-bot (on Mastodon itself)
RSS to Mastodon bot https://birdsite.slashdev.space/
lots of apps to RSS (also via Yunohost): https://github.com/rss-bridge/rss-bridge