CERT-FI Alert Mastodon bot

Watches the CERT-FI security alert feed and toots new alerts to a Mastodon instance.

Description

Periodically (period configurable) reads the CERT-FI alert RSS feed (address configurable) and if new entries found after the last reading, constructs a Mastodon status message, which is then publised to a Mastodon instance (address and login details configurable).

This is a personal Golang learning project and as such likely not much of use for anyone else. Using this as an example of anything but maybe bad code is highly discouraged.

The bot is tooting here: https://botsin.space/@certfibot

Getting Started

Installing

• Download the latest release for your architecture or build with go build.
• Write a configuration file (in .yaml format) and place it in /etc/certfi-bot/config.yml. Make it root readable only. See the test config file for reference.

Executing program

Execute the binary as root (privileges are dropped after reading the config file, and the identity of the user specified in the config file is assumed). It will remain running until killed and keep checking the CERT-FI rss feed at configured intervals.

Help

I guess you can file an issue....

Authors

Yours truly.

License

This project is licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal License - see the LICENSE.md file for details