mastodon-rss-bot

Getting Started

This bot retrieves the latest item from the RSS/Atom feed and post it to your Mastodon account automatically. You can run the bot in your website hosting panel or a VPS under the php environment.

Prerequisites

php5.6+

This file needs to work with rss-php, which is a small and easy-to-use library for consuming RSS and Atom feeds. You can download rss-php here.

Configuration

Follow these steps:

1. Clone this repo
2. Initialize the submodules with git submodule init
3. Download the submodules with git submodule update
4. Edit the configuration area in bot.php with the token of your Mastodon bot account, URL of your instance, and the URL of RSS or Atom feed.
5. Set the permission of storage.txt and count.txt to writable (775).
6. Test running bot.php to see if it works.
7. Create a crontab to frequently run bot.php, for example, every 20 minutes.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.