feedreverser - an RSS feed reverser

I wanted to use feediverse to feed an existing wordpress blog RSS feed to mastodon.

However, I wanted to

Post the rss entries as toots with the oldest entries first, i.e. the reverse order of the wordpress feed
Post the rss entries one toot at a time

This python script is an attempt at doing it. The script is intended to run just before feediverse in the crontab. What it will do then, is to pick the last item of the input feed and write it as the single item of a new RSS file.

The script keeps track of the items consumed in the .feedreverser file.

Installing on debian

To install:

As root, install python3 pip, and use it to install the runtime dependencies

apt install python3-pip
pip3 install pyyaml
pip3 install feedparser
pip3 install python-dateutil
pip3 install feedgen
pip3 install beautifulsoup4

As your own user,

clone the repo

mkdir -p ~/git
cd ~/git
git clone https://github.com/steinarb/feedreverser.git

Run the script and give the feed URL and the file to store the reversed feed in (e.g. /tmp/reversed.rss)
```
python3 git/feedreverser/feedreverser.py
        
```