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Use Feed2toot
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After the configuration of Feed2toot, just launch the following command::
$ feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
Run Feed2toot on a regular basis
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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::
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@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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Limit number of rss entries published at each execution
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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
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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.