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 tweets ============================================== 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.