NewsBot

A robot that publishes the content of RSS feeds on a Mastodon account.

Installation

1. Go to your Mastodon account in settings/development.

2. Create a new application, name it after your robot.

3. Copy your credentials into the newsbot.py script

4. Replace the path /HOME/USER/PATH/ into newsbot.py with the path to your location on the server.

5. Paste your RSS feed(s) (one per line) into the rss_feeds.txt file.

6. In scipt newsbot.py, modify the number of publications it should send per execution (default = 3).

7. Create a CRON task (crontab -e) with a call to the python script every X minutes.
   EXAMPLE:
   */10 * * * * usr/bin/python3 /HOME/USER/PATH/newsbot.py

8. Please remember to set your robot's toots to Unlisted to avoid flooding public instance.

9. Enjoy