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EchoFeed Help

Services

A service in EchoFeed is where you send a new post from an RSS feed, like a social network.

Note: imgur links are not supported when using include images.

Mastodon

Mastodon is a decentralized social media platform.

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Image Attachments

Images are limited to four per post

Options:

  • Content - The body of the toot
  • Include images - This will look for up to four image links in the feed item content and include them with the toot
  • Visibility

Micro.blog

Micro.blog is a blogging platform with additional social features and cross-posting abilities.

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Image Attachments

Images as attachments aren't supported but they can be included in the content

Options:

  • Title - This is optional
  • Content - The body of the post

Bluesky

Bluesky is a microblogging social platform.

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Image Attachments

Images are limited to four per post Images will be resized to be under Bluesky's 975kb limit

Options:

  • Content - The body of the post
  • Include images - This will look for up to four image links in the feed item content and include them with the post

GitHub

GitHub is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.

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Image Attachments

Images as attachments aren't supported but they can be included in the content

Foregjo

Forgejo is self-hosted lightweight software forge.

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Login

Forgejo doesn't use OAuth because they don't support creating applications on any arbitrary instance like Mastodon does so it uses access tokens. The token must have read and write permissions for repositories and read permissions for the user.

Forgejo settings required for EchoFeed

Image Attachments

Images as attachments aren't supported but they can be included in the content

Options:

  • Repository - The repository to create the file
  • Content - The body of the file
  • Path - The path in the repo where the file will be created

Discord Webhook

Instructions to make a Discord webhook

  • Webhook URL - the Discord webhook
  • Content - customise the text that will be sent to discord

LinkAce

LinkAce is self-hosted bookmark archive.

Options:

  • Which link to use, standard or external. External is only supported with JSON feeds
  • Tags - Comma separated list of tags to include with the link

LinkDing

LinkDing is self-hosted bookmark archive.

Options:

  • Which link to use, standard or external. External is only supported with JSON feeds
  • Tags - Comma separated list of tags to include with the link

Webmentions

Webmentions are a way of notifying site owners when you link to them from your site.

The webmentions service will check a given link for any outbound links, check those links for webmention endpoints, then send webmentions if appropriate.

  • Which link to check for webmentions, standard or external. External is only supported with JSON feeds

Web Request / Webhook

This option is designed for developers who want to get notified of new posts from a feed and do something with that data in their own applications.

  • URL - the URL to send the web request to
  • Method - GET or POST. If using POST the feed item will be included with the request as item