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.