This code publish content from a RSS feed.

• Python 3
• Mastodon account

In actions.yaml

• url: feed url
• announcement: first line in Mastodon publication
• hashtags: last line in Mastodon publication
• days: number of valid days in feed file.
• repetitions: number of elements in the repetitions control file.
• max: maximum number of publications
• reverse: descending sorting in feed file.

In config.yaml

• hostname: instance url
• access_type: credentials, acces token o github action (SO environment variables)
• access_token: client-id, secret and token in "access token" acces_type.
• disable_post: test option for no publish toots.

Server o desktop:

1. Optionally, create a new user for running the bot: adduser --disabled-login user_name

2. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/kergozh/mastofeed.git

3. Crate a virtual environment python3 -m venv .venv and activate it source .venv/bin/activate

4. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install needed libraries.

5. Modify options in the actions.yaml and config.yaml files.

6. It's possible to fill in the config yaml the cliend id, cliend secret and access token of an application created in the Mastodon web (with de "development" opction). Also, it's possilbe to indicate credentials access and run python3 quote.py manually once to setup and get its access token to Mastodon instance.

7. Use your favourite scheduling method to set feed.sh to run. For example, add 0 6 * * * /home/user_name/mastofeed/feed.sh 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t MASTOFEED in crontab -e. The system and error log will be in /var/log/syslog. Don't forgot the execution privilegies chmod +x feed.sh. Don't forgot update the user_name in feed.sh

Github Action:

1. Fork the repo.

2. Add client-id, secret and token in settings > security > secrets and variables > actions > repository secrets as: MASTO_CLIENT_ID, MASTO_SECRET and MASTO_TOKEN.

3. Change access_type in config.yaml a GA

4. Check disable_post parameter in config.yaml

5. Uncomment the cron options in .github/workflows/mastofeed.yml