Support overriding status template

.github/workflows/integration-tests.yml

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: './'
         with:
           # This is the RSS feed you want to publish
-          rss-feed: 'https://githubraw.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple.xml'
+          rss-feed: 'https://githubraw.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple-no-cache.xml'
           # Visibility of the posted status (public | unlisted | private | direct)
           status-visibility: private
           dry-run: false
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: './'
         with:
           # This is the RSS feed you want to publish
-          rss-feed: 'https://githubraw.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple.xml'
+          rss-feed: 'https://githubraw.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple-sensitive.xml'
           # Visibility of the posted status (public | unlisted | private | direct)
           status-visibility: unlisted
           # Mark Mastodon status as sensitive content
@@ -94,3 +94,27 @@ jobs:
           api-token: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
           # This is a path to the cache file, using the above cache path
           cache-file: ${{ github.workspace }}/mastofeedbot/cache.json
+
+  simple-template:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@755da8c3cf115ac066823e79a1e1788f8940201b # v3
+      - name: Run action
+        uses: './'
+        with:
+          # This is the RSS feed you want to publish
+          rss-feed: 'https://githubraw.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple-template.xml'
+          # Visibility of the posted status (public | unlisted | private | direct)
+          status-visibility: unlisted
+          # Template of status posted to Mastodon (Handlebars)
+          template: |
+            {{feedData.title}}: {{item.title}}
+
+            {{item.link}}
+          # This is your instance address
+          api-endpoint: https://social.dev-wiki.de/
+          # This is the secret you created earlier
+          api-token: ${{ secrets.MASTODON_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+          # This is a path to the cache file, using the above cache path
+          cache-file: ${{ github.workspace }}/mastofeedbot/cache.json

README.md

@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ jobs:
         with:
           # This is the RSS feed you want to publish
           rss-feed: https://www.githubstatus.com/history.rss
+          # Template of status posted to Mastodon (Handlebars)
+          template: '{{item.title}} {{item.link}}'
           # Visibility of the posted status (public | unlisted | private | direct)
           status-visibility: public
           # Mark Mastodon status as sensitive content
@@ -56,3 +58,28 @@ jobs:
 ```
 
 5. Commit and publish your changes.
+
+## Status template
+
+The status template (`status-template`) is using [Handlebars](https://handlebarsjs.com/) as template engine.
+
+The action is passing in an instance of `FeedData` (field `feedData`) and the current `FeedEntry` (field `item`) into the template:
+
+```typescript
+export interface FeedEntry {
+  link?: string;
+  title?: string;
+  description?: string;
+  published?: Date;
+}
+
+export interface FeedData {
+  link?: string;
+  title?: string;
+  description?: string;
+  generator?: string;
+  language?: string;
+  published?: Date;
+  entries?: Array<FeedEntry>;
+}
+```

action.yml

@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ inputs:
     description: 'Visibility of the posted status (public | unlisted | private | direct)'
     required: false
     default: 'public'
+  template:
+    description: 'Template of status posted to Mastodon (Handlebars)'
+    required: true
+    default: '{{item.title}} {{item.link}}'
   dry-run:
     description: 'Only fetch RSS feed and update cache but skip posting to Mastodon.'
     required: false

dist/package.json

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@actions/core": "^1.10.0",
     "@extractus/feed-extractor": "^6.1.7",
+    "handlebars": "^4.7.7",
     "masto": "^4.11.1",
     "mkdirp": "^1.0.4"
   }

package.json

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@actions/core": "^1.10.0",
     "@extractus/feed-extractor": "^6.1.7",
+    "handlebars": "^4.7.7",
     "masto": "^4.11.1",
     "mkdirp": "^1.0.4"
   }

src/index.ts

@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ import { login, StatusVisibility, type MastoClient } from 'masto';
 import { readFile, writeFile } from 'fs/promises';
 import * as core from '@actions/core';
 import mkdirp from 'mkdirp';
-import { type FeedEntry, read } from '@extractus/feed-extractor';
+import { type FeedEntry, FeedData, read } from '@extractus/feed-extractor';
 import crypto from 'crypto';
+import Handlebars from "handlebars";
 
 function sha256(data: string): string {
   return crypto.createHash('sha256').update(data, 'utf-8').digest('hex')
@@ -28,11 +29,18 @@ async function writeCache(cacheFile: string, cacheLimit: number, cache: string[]
 }
 
 async function postItems(
-  apiEndpoint: string, apiToken: string, rss: FeedEntry[], 
-  visibility: StatusVisibility, dryRun: boolean, sensitive: boolean, cache: string[]) {
+  apiEndpoint: string,
+  apiToken: string,
+  feedData: FeedData | undefined,
+  entries: FeedEntry[], 
+  statusTemplate: HandlebarsTemplateDelegate<any>,
+  visibility: StatusVisibility,
+  dryRun: boolean,
+  sensitive: boolean,
+  cache: string[]) {
   if (dryRun) {
     // Add new items to cache
-    for (const item of rss) {
+    for (const item of entries) {
       try {
         const hash = sha256(<string>item.link);
         core.debug(`Adding ${item.title} with hash ${hash} to cache`);
@@ -60,14 +68,14 @@ async function postItems(
   }
 
   // post the new items
-  for (const item of rss) {
+  for (const item of entries) {
     try {
       const hash = sha256(<string>item.link);
       core.debug(`Posting ${item.title} with hash ${hash}`);
 
       // post the item
       const res = await masto.statuses.create({
-        status: `${item.title} ${item.link}`,
+        status: statusTemplate({ feedData, item }),
         visibility,
         sensitive
       }, hash);
@@ -92,11 +100,11 @@ async function filterCachedItems(rss: FeedEntry[], cache: string[]): Promise<Fee
   return rss;
 }
 
-async function getRss(rssFeed: string): Promise<FeedEntry[] | void> {
-  let rss: FeedEntry[];
+async function getRss(rssFeed: string): Promise<FeedData | undefined> {
+  let rss: FeedData;
   try {
-    rss = <FeedEntry[]>(await read(rssFeed)).entries;
-    core.debug(JSON.stringify(`Pre-filter feed items:\n\n${JSON.stringify(rss, null, 2)}`));
+    rss = <FeedData>(await read(rssFeed));
+    core.debug(JSON.stringify(`Pre-filter feed items:\n\n${JSON.stringify(rss.entries, null, 2)}`));
     return rss;
   } catch (e) {
     core.setFailed(`Failed to parse RSS feed: ${(<Error>e).message}`);
@@ -129,22 +137,26 @@ export async function main(): Promise<void> {
   core.debug(`cacheLimit: ${cacheLimit}`);
   const statusVisibility: StatusVisibility = <StatusVisibility>core.getInput('status-visibility', { trimWhitespace: true });
   core.debug(`statusVisibility: ${statusVisibility}`);
+  const template: string = core.getInput('template');
+  core.debug(`template: ${template}`);
   const dryRun: boolean = core.getBooleanInput('dry-run');
   core.debug(`dryRun: ${dryRun}`);
   const sensitive: boolean = core.getBooleanInput('sensitive');
   core.debug(`sensitive: ${sensitive}`);
 
   // get the rss feed
-  let rss = await getRss(rssFeed);
+  const feedData: FeedData | undefined = await getRss(rssFeed);
+  const entries: FeedEntry[] = feedData?.entries ?? [];
 
   // get the cache
   const cache = await getCache(cacheFile);
 
   // filter out the cached items
-  rss = await filterCachedItems(<FeedEntry[]>rss, cache);
+  const filteredEntries: FeedEntry[] = await filterCachedItems(entries, cache);
 
   // post the new items
-  await postItems(apiEndpoint, apiToken, <FeedEntry[]>rss, statusVisibility, dryRun, sensitive, cache);
+  const statusTemplate = Handlebars.compile(template);
+  await postItems(apiEndpoint, apiToken, feedData, entries, statusTemplate, statusVisibility, dryRun, sensitive, cache);
 
   // write the cache
   await writeCache(cacheFile, cacheLimit, cache);

tests/simple-no-cache.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<rss version="2.0">
+  <channel>
+    <link>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple.rss</link>
+    <title>Channel Title</title>
+    <description>Channel description.</description>
+    <managingEditor>joe.user@example.com (Managing Editor)</managingEditor>
+    <lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:17:21 +0000</lastBuildDate>
+    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
+    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
+    <image>
+      <url>https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/43951</url>
+      <link>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple.rss</link>
+      <title>Image Title</title>
+      <description>Image description.</description>
+    </image>
+    <item>
+      <link>https://github.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/pull/1#no-cache</link>
+      <guid isPermaLink="false">44aefc891f5b1f96ae7393f3d1613254eae9c23b</guid>
+      <title>Item 1 Title</title>
+      <description>Item 1 Description</description>
+      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
+      <category>item1:category</category>
+      <author>author.item1@example.com (Author Item 1)</author>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <link>https://github.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/pull/2#no-cache</link>
+      <guid isPermaLink="false">55a26da9618a994e56c845306bd38641f58220af</guid>
+      <title>Item 2 Title</title>
+      <description>Item 2 Description</description>
+      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
+      <category>item2:category</category>
+      <author>author.item2@example.com (Author Item 2)</author>
+    </item>
+  </channel>
+</rss>

tests/simple-sensitive.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
+<rss version="2.0">
+  <channel>
+    <link>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple.rss</link>
+    <title>Channel Title</title>
+    <description>Channel description.</description>
+    <managingEditor>joe.user@example.com (Managing Editor)</managingEditor>
+    <lastBuildDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:17:21 +0000</lastBuildDate>
+    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 07:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
+    <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs>
+    <image>
+      <url>https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/43951</url>
+      <link>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/main/tests/simple.rss</link>
+      <title>Image Title</title>
+      <description>Image description.</description>
+    </image>
+    <item>
+      <link>https://github.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/pull/1#sensitive</link>
+      <guid isPermaLink="false">44aefc891f5b1f96ae7393f3d1613254eae9c23b</guid>
+      <title>Item 1 Title</title>
+      <description>Item 1 Description</description>
+      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
+      <category>item1:category</category>
+      <author>author.item1@example.com (Author Item 1)</author>
+    </item>
+    <item>
+      <link>https://github.com/joschi/mastofeedbot/pull/2#sensitive</link>
+      <guid isPermaLink="false">55a26da9618a994e56c845306bd38641f58220af</guid>
+      <title>Item 2 Title</title>
+      <description>Item 2 Description</description>
+      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
+      <category>item2:category</category>
+      <author>author.item2@example.com (Author Item 2)</author>
+    </item>
+  </channel>
+</rss>