A super basic script that fetches RSS feeds and calls a webhook.
It's meant to run on a Raspberry Pi and get triggered by a cronjob.
Specify the feeds you want to subscribe to along with a webhook url in the config.json file.
Make sure to rename config_template.json to config.json.
Additionally you can provide a webhook that gets called if a feed could not be loaded.
The script will edit the config file to store the last post date for each feed so it knows if something new was posted since the last update.
Note: Re-Tweets are considered part of the feed and will be included
Some platforms, like Discord or Telegram, don't show previews for Twitter links. But there's a cool service called FixTweet that can help with that.
Add is_twitter_feed: true to the feed config to activate this feature.
Since Twitter.com doesn't offer (free) RSS feeds, you could use a community-run Nitter instance to get your RSS feeds. You can find a list of instances here https://status.d420.de/.
These public nitter instances shouldn't be used for scraping, as mentioned here https://status.d420.de/about#api.
If you plan to use this script on a larger scale, you might want to think about hosting your own nitter instance.
- improve file handling (only open and write once)