README.md

mastodon-feed

Python app used for streaming mastodon hastags into kafka topics

Pre-requisites

• Docker - https://www.docker.com/get-started/
• Docker Compose - https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
• Create a access token for your mastodon account - https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/guidelines/#making-authenticated-requests
• Create .env file with the following variables:

MASTODON_INSTANCE_URL=https://mastodon.social
MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HASHTAG=retail
KAFKA_TOPIC=mastodon

How to run

• Run docker-compose build to build the containers
• Run docker-compose up -d to start the containers
• Run docker-compose logs -f to see the logs
• Run docker-compose down to stop the containers

Architecture