slack-mastodon

slack-mastodon mirrors your Mastodon feed to a Slack channel

slack-mastodon is based on pansapiens/masto2slack, which performs a similar function but for your own posts. I started from that repo, adjusted for my own build process, and tweaked the code to use the user's timeline instead of their own posts.

Usage

Setup

You'll need to:

• On your Mastodon server, create a 'new application' and get an access token (access_token) (you can do this under https://<your_instance>/settings/applications/new in the web interface). You'll need read access.
• Create a Slack App, grant it the chat:write and link:write bot scopes, and install to your workspace.
• Create a configuration file, ~/.config/slack-mastodon/config.yml, as below.

Example ~/.config/slack-mastodon/config.yml:

slack:
  bot_token: xoxb-BLAH
  channel: C04GDJLJASD
mastodon:
  server: https://mastodon.social
  access_token: TOKEN

Running

Either create a cronjob (crontab -e) to call slack-mastodon every 5 mins (or longer):

*/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/slack-mastodon update >/dev/null 2>&1

(this assumes you've copied slack-mastodon to /usr/local/bin/slack-mastodon)

Alternatively, run:

watch -n 300 ./slack-mastodon update

to check for new posts every 5 mins (300 seconds).

Installation

go install github.com/akerl/slack-mastodon@latest

License

slack-mastodon is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.