Turn Mastodon into your feed reader, for small private instances. A fork of RSS Parrot.

Clone the full history (rss-kakapo.bundle, a git bundle, 1.2 MiB):

curl -O https://sources.profpatsch.de/rss-kakapo.bundle
git clone rss-kakapo.bundle rss-kakapo

The clone keeps the bundle as its origin; replace the file and git fetch to update.

Run a package with Nix (rss-kakapo.tar.gz, a source tarball, 908.3 KiB):

nix run https://sources.profpatsch.de/rss-kakapo.tar.gz#<package>

The archive is a Nix flake; nix flake show https://sources.profpatsch.de/rss-kakapo.tar.gz lists its packages.

deploy/ 775 B · 2 files 38 minutes ago
src/ 715.6 KiB · 16 dirs, 109 files 53 minutes ago
.gitignore 75 B 1 hour ago
.source-forge 155 B 1 hour ago
LICENSE 1.0 KiB 2 years ago
README.md 2.2 KiB 38 minutes ago
build-mac.sh 386 B 38 minutes ago
build.sh 449 B 38 minutes ago
flake.lock 564 B 1 hour ago
flake.nix 894 B 1 hour ago
package.nix 1.7 KiB 38 minutes ago

rss-kakapo

A Fediverse service that turns Mastodon into your feed reader: mention the birb with a website's address, and it creates an account that toots every new post of that site's RSS or Atom feed.

rss-kakapo is a fork of RSS Parrot by Gabor L Ugray, taken at v0.0.99. It is meant for small, private instances rather than one big public one. Please don't report problems with rss-kakapo to RSS Parrot.

Differences from RSS Parrot

Who may request feeds can be restricted. With restrict_requests: true, only the monikers (@user@host) listed in allowed_requesters_file may ask the birb for new feeds; everyone else gets a polite refusal. An empty or missing list then denies everyone. Off by default.
Feeds are polled politely. A check sends the ETag and Last-Modified of the last successful response back as If-None-Match / If-Modified-Since, so an unchanged feed costs a 304 with no body. Each consecutive failed check doubles the wait before the next one, and a Retry-After from the server is honoured. A server can't silence a feed this way, though: the wait after a failure is capped at max_retry_delay_hours (default 24) — so Retry-After: 3024000 still means "try again tomorrow". A feed whose normal interval is longer than the cap just stays on its normal schedule, so a failing feed is never polled more often than a healthy one.
Logs always go to stderr, through a small stdlib logger instead of charmbracelet/log, which drops eleven modules from the dependency tree. log_file is ignored.
No rss-parrot.net branding in the web pages and the birb's texts: the instance's own host is shown, and there are no analytics.
Nix: package.nix builds the server and its www/ tree with any nixpkgs (callPackage); flake.nix wraps it.

The binary is rss-kakapo, but the Go module is still called rss_parrot, to keep upstream commits easy to cherry-pick.

Source

https://sources.profpatsch.de/rss-kakapo/

Upstream history is kept intact; the fork's commits sit on top of upstream's v0.0.99 tag.

License

MIT, see LICENSE. Copyright for the original work remains with Gabor L Ugray.