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.
Activity Streams are basically the new RSS and it’s a lot better than RSS.
Mastodon is built on Activity Pub, which is built on Activity Streams - so you shouldn’t even need to touch RSS at all. The AS already exists. You can access it via the API.
Under European laws all services are required to give you a copy of all data associated with your account if you ask for it. And Mastodon being a European product is of course fully compliant. Just go to your profile and hit the “Request your Archive” button. You could do that once a month or something.
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I don’t know of a project that does this, but if I was to tackle it I would convert the RSS to the Activity Streams standard - https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/.
Activity Streams are basically the new RSS and it’s a lot better than RSS.
Mastodon is built on Activity Pub, which is built on Activity Streams - so you shouldn’t even need to touch RSS at all. The AS already exists. You can access it via the API.
Under European laws all services are required to give you a copy of all data associated with your account if you ask for it. And Mastodon being a European product is of course fully compliant. Just go to your profile and hit the “Request your Archive” button. You could do that once a month or something.
Yes, the “Request Archive” method may be the “don’t over engineer this stupid” option I go with.