Personal Replacement for Echofeed

Echofeed was a service to take rss feeds and ’echo’ them to other services such as Mastodon. Recently they have been winding down the service for numerous but very understandable reasons. While I have no plans on offering an alternate service, I wrote my own simple version to continue having a similar flow of blog -> mastodon posts. django-feedparser-low Since I use django for most of my projects, my first search was to PyPI to see if there were any projects that combined django with feedparser (a popular library for processing rss/atom/json feeds). While there are a few listed, most seem to be a little older and I wanted something that more simply integrated with Django, and used the new tasks framework . My first draft of this is django-feedparser-low to handle the lower level basics (naming is hard!). The goal with this, was to provide the basic models and task functions to handle scraping. The basic models.py provides a Feed model to track subscriptions, and a basic Entry model.…