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I'm surprised that Mastodon doean't provide a RSS feed itself? Other Fediverse platforms seem to do that. Maybe the author wanted more fine control, but still,
by spookie 3y ago
I'm surprised that Mastodon doean't provide a RSS feed itself? Other Fediverse platforms seem to do that.
Maybe the author wanted more fine control, but still, it would make its solution a bit easier.
- jackvalentine 3y agoMaybe I’m missing something here, but it does: mastodon.social/@brownpau.rss for example.
- riidom 3y agoNice! Just to add: You need to be on the original URL, so A-instance.com/@B-user@B-instance.com.rss won't work, it must be B-instance.com/@B-user.rss
- distract8901 3y agoFun fact! Your local instance creates a shadow account for remote users, which has a unique ID and a copy of the profile data, but is otherwise empty. I haven't seen this documented anywhere and it cost me about a day of effort when I was building a mastodon bot. If you naively try to fetch content from a remote user replying to a post, you won't find anything. You have to hit the remote instance's search API and pass their profile name in. Which is frankly insane.
- seszett 3y agoMastodon provides RSS feeds for every account, but no RSS feed for your "home". There's a feature request open for that: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18601 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18601
- spookie 3y agoOh, thanks for the insight! Hopefully that feature will get through!