-# Pelican-toot
+# pelican-fediverse
-A Pelican plugin to publish content on Mastodon
+A Pelican plugin to publish content on the Fediverse
+
+!warning! Under development. Presently only Mastodon is supported. DEVELOPERS NEEDED!
Hacked from [Pelican-tweet](https://github.com/mpaglia0/Pelican-tweet).
:warning: Needs Python > 3.0
-## How it works
+## How it works (Mastodon)
-*Pelican-toot* will search your contents for articles (actually ALL contents except pages) that are not in a `draft` status.
+*pelican-fediverse* will search your contents for articles (actually ALL contents except pages) that are not in a `draft` status.
On its first run it creates a file called `posted_on_Mastodon.txt` in your Pelican root directory populated with all your article URLs.
On every further run it matches the actual articles list with the list in `posted_on_Mastodon.txt` file and posts only new articles (and writes them in `posted_on_Mastodon.txt`).
-*Pelican-toot* is at its very first stage of development, but it is already usable in product environments.
+*pelican-fediverse* is at its very first stage of development, but it is already usable in product environments.
This release can publish:
Body is taken from `article.summary` with standard Pelican configuartion i.e. length trimmed to 50 words and summary ends with `...` OR with parameters you set in `pelicanconf.py` (`SUMMARY_MAX_LENGTH` and `SUMMARY_END_SUFFIX`).
-If the total length of the post exceeds MAX length allowed from Mastodon, then *Pelican-toot* will trim `article.summary` accordingly.
+If the total length of the post exceeds MAX length allowed from Mastodon, then *pelican-fediverse* will trim `article.summary` accordingly.
Hashtag(s) are taken - if any - from `article.tags` and concatenated separating each of them with commas.
MASTODON_USERNAME = 'Your username for Mastodon login'
MASTODON_PASSWORD = 'You password for Mastodon login'
```
-There is no need to register an app in your Mastodon profile because *Pelican-toot* will do it for you!
+There is no need to register an app in your Mastodon profile because *pelican-fediverse* will do it for you!
-On every run *Pelican-toot* looks for a file called `pelicantoot_clientcred.secret` and - if it is not found - it gets in touch with Mastodon, creates an app called *PelicanToot* and writes API keys and other necessary information in this file.
+On every run *pelican-fediverse* looks for a file called `pelicantoot_clientcred.secret` and - if it is not found - it gets in touch with Mastodon, creates an app called *PelicanToot* and writes API keys and other necessary information in this file.
-If you **cancel** this file *Pelican-toot* will create another app on its next run (this could be done in case of problem despite the fact Mastodon advise this is NOT a good behaviour since app should be created only once).
+If you **cancel** this file *pelican-fediverse* will create another app on its next run (this could be done in case of problem despite the fact Mastodon advise this is NOT a good behaviour since app should be created only once).