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.

  • @bogoOP
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    211 months ago

    Thanks. This has potential and would force me to finally learn Ruby if I want to tweak it.

    • Paradox
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      211 months ago

      Best way to learn is to dive in and try to accomplish something you want to do