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[snarfed] mlncn: our Facebook POSSE experience was mostly with normal accounts, which got largely turned off a few years ago: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2018/04/24/new-facebook-platform-product-changes-policy-updates/
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[snarfed] for pages, on the other hand, I think you're right that API access still exists, but we probably don't have much experience or advice
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[snarfed] big partners like WP often have custom biz dev deals that get them permissions unavailable to smaller API users
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[snarfed] and yes, pretty sure Known's POSSEing to FB is dead, but not sure about pages vs accounts
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[snarfed] lots of us are POSSEing to Mastodon via their API, as well as or instead of federating! Bridgy is one example. https://brid.gy/about#publish-types
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mlncn awesome on Mastodon! Wondering if i should make a https://www.drupal.org/project/social_post implementation that uses the Mastodon API directly, or use Bridgy, and if Bridgy would want the page/group posting capability.
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mlncn Trying to reduce duplication of effort and i'll probably triple it but hey
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[snarfed] Bridgy has a long painful history with the FB API, https://brid.gy/about#rip-facebook , and I'm not really ready to jump back into that dumpster fire any time soon
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[snarfed] feel free to use it for Mastodon though!
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mlncn for sure
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capjamesg [schmarty] I have a draft of the microsub-opml utility: https://microsub-opml.jamesg.blog/
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capjamesg Currently it only supports export. There is a CLI script for importing.
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capjamesg Importing requires making N HTTP requests where N = the number of feeds to which you subscribe.
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capjamesg Thus, I'll need a page that shows the status of a job, and a mechanism to delete jobs.
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hala-bala[m] what is the best rss/atom parser to base my stuff on ? any links ? :)
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hala-bala[m] looking for nodejs library
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[tantek] [KevinMarks] ^
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[KevinMarks] The python one is the best, I don't know of a node one
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[tantek] what is the python RSS/Atom parser?
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Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "python RSS/Atom parser" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "python RSS/Atom parser is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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capjamesg[d] feedparser?
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[tantek] what is feedparser
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Loqi feedparser is the Python Universal Feed Parser, originally by Mark Pilgrim, but now multiple forks are maintained at https://github.com/kevinmarks/feedparser (with microformats rel support) and at https://github.com/kurtmckee/feedparser https://indieweb.org/feedparser
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[tantek] python RSS/Atom parser is feedparser
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Loqi ok
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hala-bala[m] [KevinMarks]: I will check it out, thanks
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