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Use Feed2toot
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After the configuration of Feed2toot, just launch the following command::
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$ feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
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Run Feed2toot on a regular basis
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Feed2toot should be launche on a regular basis in order to efficiently send your new RSS entries to Mastodon. It is quite easy to achieve with adding a line to your user crontab, as described below::
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@hourly feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
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will execute feed2toot every hour. Or without the syntactic sugar in the global crontab file /etc/crontab::
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0 * * * * johndoe feed2toot -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
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Test option
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In order to know what's going to be sent to Mastodon without actually doing it, use the **--dry-run** option::
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$ feed2toot --dry-run -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
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Debug option
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In order to increase the verbosity of what's Feed2toot is doing, use the **--debug** option followed by the level of verbosity see [the the available different levels](https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html)::
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$ feed2toot --debug -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
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Populate the cache file without posting tweets
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Starting from 0.8, Feed2toot offers the **--populate-cache** command line option to populate the cache file without posting to Mastodon::
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$ feed2toot --populate-cache -c feed2toot.ini
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/65krkk
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/co2es0
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/la2ihl
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/stfwtx
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/qq1wte
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/y8mzrp
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/ozjqv0
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/6ev8jz
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/gezvnv
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populating RSS entry https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/lqswmz
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How to display available sections of the rss feed
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Starting from 0.8, Feed2toot offers the **--rss-sections** command line option to display the available section of the rss feed and exits::
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$ feed2toot --rss-sections -c feed2toot.ini
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The following sections are available in this RSS feed: ['title', 'comments', 'authors', 'link', 'author', 'summary', 'links', 'tags', id', 'author_detail', 'published'].
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Using syslog
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Feed2toot is able to send its log to syslog. You can use it with the following command::
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$ feed2toot --syslog=WARN -c /path/to/feed2toot.ini
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