RSS Goes Social

RSS Goes Social is an application that adds RSS feeds to the Fediverse through a Mastodon-compatible API (Mastodon, GoToSocial, Firefish...).

Usage

I recommend using Docker, but you can also build this application yourself with Go 1.22.

The official Docker image is anhgelus/rss-goes-social.

1. Download the docker-compose.yml at the root of the repository. It contains the application and Redis.
2. Then start it with docker compose up -d. It will create the config file config/config.toml
3. Customize the config file and restart.
4. Enjoy !

Config file

The default config file is

version = '2'
fetch_every_X_minutes = 5

[redis]
host = 'localhost'
port = 6379
password = ''

[[feed]]
rss_feed_url = 'https://blog.example.org/rss'
server_url = 'https://gts.example.org'
token = 'account_token'
enabled = false
language = 'language of the feed (e.g. en, fr, de)'
tags = []

Do not modify version.

• fetch_every_X_minutes is the time (in minute) between two fetches.
• [redis].host is the Redis' host. If you are using the docker-compose.yml provided, it's redis.
• [redis].port is the port of Redis. If you are using the docker-compose.yml provided, it's 6379.
• [redis].passowrd is the Redis' password. If you are using the docker-compose.yml provided, there is no password.
• [[feed]].rss_feed_url is the url of the RSS feed.
• [[feed]].server_url is the url of the Mastodon-like API.
• [[feed]].token is the bot's token.
• [[feed]].enabled is set to true when the feed is enabled.
• [[feed]].language is the language of the feed (ISO 639)
• [[feed]].tags is a list of tags used when a status is published

To add a new feed, just copy the [[feed]] part and edit every variable. e.g.

version = '2'
fetch_every_X_minutes = 5

[redis]
host = 'redis'
port = 6379
password = ''

[[feed]]
rss_feed_url = 'https://blog.example.org/rss'
server_url = 'https://gts.example.org'
token = 'account_token'
enabled = false
language = 'en'
tags = ["art"]

[[feed]]
rss_feed_url = 'https://blog2.example.org/rss'
server_url = 'https://mastodon.example.org'
token = 'account_token2'
enabled = true
language = 'fr'
tags = ["gaming", "pc"]

CLI

• rss-goes-social and rss-goes-social help show the help
• rss-goes-social help {command} shows the help for the command
• rss-goes-social run runs the application
• rss-goes-social setup {url} setup the Mastodon application for the given server (url could be https://mastodon.social)

Setup

setup can be used without any flag or with two flags. Without any flags, you will create a new application, and you will get a new client_id and a new client_secret. With the two flags, you will use an existing application.

If you never registered RSS Goes Social on https://example.org, you must use rss-goes-social https//example.org.

If you already registered RSS Goes Social on https://example.org, you must use rss-goes-social setup https://example.org -id client_id -secret client_secret where client_id is the client's id of the previous registered application and client_secret is the client's secret of the previous registered application.

During the setup, RSS Goes Social will ask you to log in to an account and to copy a token given by the instance. You must log in to the account for which you wish to obtain the token. After the login, you have to click on the "Allow" button to allow RSS Goes Social to use this account. Then, the instance will give you the token. You have to give this token to RSS Goes Social to finish the process and to finally get the token to put in the config.

This can also be done graphically if the instance supports it. For example, Mastodon supports it but GoToSocial does not.

Technologies

• Go 1.22
• mmcdole/gofeed
• pelletier/go-toml/v2
• redis/go-redis/v9
• and their dependencies