Is anyone aware of an existing project that can do something like this:
- Access an RSS feed.
- Parse the contents of the items in the feed, and fetch linked images.
- Take the new feed elements and add them to previously fetched elements.
- Store all of the content in a merged RSS/XML file, or something like a SQLite DB.
Context: I’d like to archive Mastodon posts of an account automatically. I’d prefer it to be a script/binary I could run on Linux as I’d likely throw it in a GitHub action and save the resulting output in the git repo.
I could probably whip something together but I’m lazy and I’d prefer to use something that already exists.
https://github.com/mreid/feed-bag
Not sure if it does all you want, but the basics are there, and it wouldn’t be beyond the pale to make something like this do what you want. The code is pretty clean
Thanks. This has potential and would force me to finally learn Ruby if I want to tweak it.
Best way to learn is to dive in and try to accomplish something you want to do