feediverse will read RSS/Atom feeds and send the messages as Mastodon posts. It's kind of the same thing as feed2toot but just one module that works with Python 3.

Install

pip install feediverse

Run

The first time you run feediverse you'll need to tell it your Mastodon instance and get an access token which it will save in a configuration file. If you don't specify a config file it will use ~/.feediverse:

feediverse

Once feediverse is configured you can add it to your crontab:

*/15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/feediverse    

Post Format

You can customize the post format by opening the configuration file (default is ~/.feediverse) and updating the template property of your feed. The default format is:

{title} {url}

But you can use the {summary} as well, and also add text like so:

Bookmark: {title} {url} {summary}

Multiple Feeds

Since feeds is a list you can add additional feeds to watch if you want.

...
feeds:
  - url: https://example.com/feed/
    template: "dot com: {title} {url}"
  - url: https://example.org/feed/
    template: "dot org: {title} {url}"

Why?

I created feediverse because I wanted to send my Pinboard bookmarks to Mastodon. I've got an IFTTT recipe that does this for Twitter, but IFTTT doesn't appear to work with Mastodon yet.

That being said feediverse should work with any RSS or Atom feed (thanks to feedparser). But please be responsible. Don't fill up Mastodon with tons of junk just because you can. That kind of toxic behavior is why a lot of people are leaving other social media platforms and trying to start over in Mastodon.