Use Feed2toot¶
After the configuration of Feed2toot, just launch the following command:
$ feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
Run Feed2toot on a regular basis¶
Feed2toot should be launched on a regular basis in order to efficiently send your new RSS entries to Mastodon. It is quite easy to achieve by adding a line to your user crontab, as described below:
@hourly feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
will execute feed2toot every hour. Or without the syntactic sugar in the global crontab file /etc/crontab:
0 * * * * johndoe feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
Test option¶
In order to know what’s going to be sent to Mastodon without actually doing it, use the –dry-run option:
$ feed2toot --dry-run -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
Debug option¶
In order to increase the verbosity of what’s Feed2toot is doing, use the –debug option followed by the level of verbosity see [the the available different levels](https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html):
$ feed2toot --debug -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
Populate the cache file without posting toots¶
Starting from 0.8, Feed2toot offers the –populate-cache command line option to populate the cache file without posting to Mastodon:
$ feed2toot --populate-cache -c feed2toot.ini
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/65krkk
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/co2es0
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/la2ihl
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/stfwtx
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/qq1wte
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/y8mzrp
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/ozjqv0
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/6ev8jz
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/gezvnv
populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/lqswmz
How to display available sections of the rss feed¶
Starting from 0.8, Feed2toot offers the –rss-sections command line option to display the available section of the rss feed and exits:
$ feed2toot --rss-sections -c feed2toot.ini
The following sections are available in this RSS feed: ['title', 'comments', 'authors', 'link', 'author', 'summary', 'links', 'tags', id', 'author_detail', 'published'].
Using syslog¶
Feed2toot is able to send its log to syslog. You can use it with the following command:
$ feed2toot --syslog=WARN -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
Limit number of rss entries published at each execution¶
If you want to limit the number of rss entries published at each execution, you can use the –limit CLI option.
$ feed2toot –limit 5 -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
The number of posts to Mastodon will be at 5 posts top with this CLI option.
Use register_feed2toot_app¶
You need a Mastodon app associated to a user on the Mastodon instance. The script register_feed2toot_app will create an app for Feed2toot and upload it on the specified Mastodon instance.
Primary usage
$ register_feed2toot_app
Possible CLI options:
- use the –client-credentials-file option to change the filename in which the client credentials are stored (defaults to feed2toot_clientcred.txt)
- use the –user-credentials-file option to change the filename in which the user credentials are stored (defaults to feed2toot_usercred.txt)
- use the –name to change the Mastodon app name (defaults to feed2toot)
Example with full options and full output:
$ ./register_feed2toot_app --user-credentials-file f2tusercreds.txt --client-credentials-file f2tclientcreds.txt --name f2t
This script generates the Mastodon application credentials for Feed2toot.
f2tclientcreds.txt and f2tusercreds.txt will be written
in the current directory: /home/me/feed2toot/scripts.
WARNING: previous files with the same names will be overwritten.
A connection is also initiated to create the application.
Your password is *not* stored.
Mastodon instance URL (defaults to https://mastodon.social): https://framapiaf.org
Mastodon login: toto@titi.com
Mastodon password:
The app f2t was added to your preferences=>authorized apps page.
The file f2tclientcreds.txt and f2tusercreds.txt were created in the current directory.