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Monesi

Monesi is a bot for Mastodon. You can let it subscribe a rss feed by a mention like "@monesi@bcn-users.degica.com subscribe http://tech.degica.com/".

This project is under heavy development.

Using Monesi

subscribe a rss feed.

@monesi@bcn-users.degica.com subscribe http://tech.degica.com/

unsubscribe a rss feed.

@monesi@bcn-users.degica.com unsubscribe http://tech.degica.com/

list current subscriptions up.

@monesi@bcn-users.degica.com list

Installing Monesi

Requirement

a dedicated mastodon account
a server for running it

Setup

$ git clone https://github.com/essa/monesi
$ cd monesi
$ bundle install --path vendor/bundle
$ bundle exec rspec spec # test it
$ bundle exec bin/monesi setup
Instance URL: |https://mstdn.jp| https://(your mastodon server)
Your Email Address: (your mail address)
Your Password: ****

Run monesi

$ bin/monesi bot

All subscriptions will be saved to status.yaml.

Run monesi on Barcelona

$ cp barcelona.yml.sample barcelona.yml
$ vi barcelona.yml # update docker repository url
$ bcn create --district=mstdn -e production
$ bcn env set -e production MASTODON_URL=https://bcn-users.degica.com AWS_REGION=ap-northeast-1 S3_BUCKET=(your S3 bucket name)
$ bcn env set -e production --secret MASTODON_CLIENT_ID='xxxx' MASTODON_CLIENT_SECRET='****' MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN='****' AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='****' AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='****' # copy it from .env
$ bcn deploy -e production

Todo

Enable Configuration ( Interval for fetching feeds, path for status file, etc...)
Access Control List ( Allow subscription only from specified domain/users)
Control Logging/Messages
Globalize
Put a tag on feed update messages

Why it is named "Monesi"

It is named after another extinct animal like Mastodon.

Josephoartigasia monesi - Wikipedia