MastodonTootFollower/README.md

MastodonTootFollower

Follow Toots on Mastodon - don't miss new replies or edits.

Usage - Demo instance

Visit https://mastodon-toot-follower.privacy1st.de/ to generate a link to follow a conversation on Mastodon.

Usage - Local instance and CLI

Start a local server from local python venv:

make prod

Start a local server with docker-compose:

sudo docker-compose up -d

Visit http://localhost:5000 to generate a link to follow a conversation on Mastodon.

Additionally, one can view news from a conversation on the commandline:

MASTODON_TOOT_URL=https://mastodon.instance/@user@another.instance/123456 make cli

Used libraries

See requirements.txt.

• Mastodon.py: Fetch Toot and replies from a Mastodon instance.
• python3-feedgen: Generate an Atom/RSS feed.
• Flask: Provide a web API (JSON, RSS+XML, HTML).
• Waitress: Web server.

Test RSS/Atom feed

Tested with gfeeds:

rm -rf ~/.config/org.gabmus.gfeeds.* ~/.cache/org.gabmus.gfeeds
gfeds

Tested with Nextcloud News.

Other feed readers: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/list_of_applications#News,_RSS,_and_blogs