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| author | Ludovic Chabant <ludovic@chabant.com> |
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| date | Sun, 29 Jul 2018 23:59:39 -0700 |
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| 2 SiloRider | |
| 3 ========= | |
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| 5 SiloRider is a command-line utility that lets you implement the `POSSE`_ model | |
| 6 on a website. This is how it works: | |
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| 8 - It reads your website's main page (or whatever URL you supply) and looks for | |
| 9 `Microformats`_ markup. | |
| 10 - It reads a configuration file where you describe which "silos" (*i.e.* | |
| 11 external services) you want to post your content to. | |
| 12 - It reads a local cache file to figure out which content has already been | |
| 13 posted where, so it only posts new content. | |
| 14 - It actually posts that content to each silo. | |
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| 17 Supported Silos | |
| 18 --------------- | |
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| 20 Right now, the following silos are supported: | |
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22 - `Mastodon`_: an open, federated social network and microblogging service. |
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23 - `Twitter`_: a proprietary social network and microblogging service. |
| 0 | 24 - Print: a debug silo that just prints entries in the console. |
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| 27 Quickstart | |
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30 SiloRider will need to read a configuration file in `INI`_ format. The minimum |
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31 requirement is to define at least one "silo" using a ``silo:<name>`` section, |
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32 and to specify the url to one of your personal websites:: |
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| 34 [silo:my_mastodon] | |
| 35 type: mastodon | |
| 36 url: https://mastodon.social | |
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38 [urls] |
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39 my_blog: https://your.website.com |
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41 This defines one Mastodon silo to which you want to cross-post entries from |
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42 your blog at ``your.website.com``. |
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| 44 You can then run:: | |
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| 46 silorider auth my_mastodon | |
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48 This command will authenticate your Mastodon account and provide SiloRider with |
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49 the permission to post to your timeline. The authorization tokens are stored in |
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50 a cache file that defaults to ``silorider.db``, next to the configuration file. |
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51 Later, this cache will also contain the list of entries already posted to each |
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52 silo. |
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| 54 Once authenticated, you can run:: | |
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58 This will populate the cache with the existing entries, since you probably |
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59 don't want the first run of SiloRider to cross-post your last dozen or so |
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60 entries in one go. |
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| 62 Later, when you post something new, you can then run:: | |
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66 This will pick up the new entries and post them to Mastodon. You can run this |
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67 command again regularly... if there's something new, SiloRider will cross-post |
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68 it to the configured silos. If not, it will just exit. |
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| 71 .. _POSSE: https://indieweb.org/POSSE | |
| 72 .. _Microformats: http://microformats.org/ | |
| 73 .. _Mastodon: https://joinmastodon.org/ | |
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74 .. _Twitter: https://twitter.com/ |
| 0 | 75 .. _INI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file |
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