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.
I use miniflux, and you can configure it to modify feed items. As far as I know it does not purge anything by default.
Really, pulling an RSS feed and parsing it, storing stuff is probably 50 lines of bash, and less in a general purpose scripting language.