---
name: "feed2toot"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "feed2toot"
version: "0.17-1+deb13u1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/feed2toot"
---

# feed2toot(1)

Take rss feed and send it to Mastodon

## NAME

feed2toot - Take rss feed and send it to Mastodon

## USAGE

usage: feed2toot \[-h\] \[--version\] \[-c FILE \[FILE ...\]\] \[-a\] \[--ignore-ssl\]

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  \[-l LIMIT\] \[-t LOCKTIMEOUT\] \[--cachefile CACHEFILE\] \[--lockfile LOCKFILE\] \[-n\] \[-v\] \[-d\] \[--syslog \[{CRITICAL,FATAL,ERROR,WARN,WARNING,INFO,DEBUG}\]\] \[--hashtaglist HASHTAGLIST\] \[-p\] \[-r http://...\] \[--rss-sections\]

Take rss feed and send it to Mastodon

### optional arguments:

- **-h**, **--help**

  show this help message and exit

- **--version**

  show program's version number and exit

- **-c** FILE \[FILE ...\], **--config** FILE \[FILE ...\]

  Location of config file (default: \['~/.config/feed2toot.ini'\])

- **-a**, **--all**

  tweet all RSS items, regardless of cache

- **--ignore-ssl**

  ignore ssl errors while fetching rss feeds

- **-l** LIMIT, **--limit** LIMIT

  tweet only LIMIT items (default: 10)

- **-t** LOCKTIMEOUT, **--lock-timeout** LOCKTIMEOUT

  lock timeout in seconds after which feed2toot can removes the lock itself

- **--cachefile** CACHEFILE

  location of the cache file (default: None)

- **--lockfile** LOCKFILE

  location of the lock file (default: ~/.config/feed2toot.lock)

- **-n**, **--dry-run**

  Do not actually post tweets

- **-v**, **--verbose**, **--info**

  enable informative (verbose) output, work on log level INFO

- **-d**, **--debug**

  enable debug output, work on log level DEBUG

- **--syslog** \[{CRITICAL,FATAL,ERROR,WARN,WARNING,INFO,DEBUG}\]

  log to syslog facility, default: no logging, INFO if **--syslog** is specified without argument

- **--hashtaglist** HASHTAGLIST

  a list of hashtags to match

- **-p**, **--populate-cache**

  populate RSS entries in cache without actually posting them to Mastodon

- **-r** http://..., **--rss** http://...

  the RSS feed URL to fetch items from

- **--rss-sections**

  print the available sections of the rss feed to be used in the tweet template

For more information: https://feed2toot.readthedocs.io