feedreverser

feedreverser - an RSS feed reverser

I wanted to use feediverse to feed an existing wordpress blog RSS feed to mastodon.

However, I wanted to
1. Post the rss entries as toots with the oldest entries first, i.e. the reverse order of the wordpress feed
2. Post the rss entries one toot at a time

This python script is an attempt at doing it. The script is intended to run just before feediverse in the crontab. What it will do then, is to pick the last item of the input feed and write it as the single item of a new RSS file.

The script keeps track of the items consumed in the .feedreverser file.

Installing on debian

To install:
1. As root, install python3 pip, and use it to install the runtime dependencies
#+begin_example apt install python3-pip pip3 install pyyaml pip3 install feedparser pip3 install python-dateutil pip3 install feedgen pip3 install beautifulsoup4 #+end_example
2. As your own user,
3. clone the repo
#+begin_example mkdir -p ~/git cd ~/git git clone https://github.com/steinarb/feedreverser.git #+end_example
4. Run the script and give the feed URL and the file to store the reversed feed in (e.g. /tmp/reversed.rss)
#+begin_example python3 git/feedreverser/feedreverser.py #+end_example