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====== Mastodon RSS Bookmarks ======
Mastodon considers your bookmark list to be private information.  I'm happy to share mine.  Plus, I wanted a way to add any bookmarks I make there into a 'Read later' category in my RSS reader (which is also where my phone and browser bookmarks go).

This was pretty simple, I create a PHP file that gets the latest 20 bookmarks (default API endpoint ''/api/v1/bookmarks'') and takes an access token from your mastodon 'development' admin page.

Then I can give this URL to my RSS reader: https://neil.mckillop.org/stuff/mastodon_bookmarks.rss 

<code php get_mastodon_bookmarks.php>
<?php
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
$bearer = "get your access token from the development page in the mastodon web client settings";
$instance = "glasgow.social";
$headers = [
  'Authorization: Bearer '.$bearer,
];

$ch_bookmarks = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch_bookmarks, CURLOPT_URL, "https://$instance/api/v1/bookmarks");
curl_setopt($ch_bookmarks, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch_bookmarks, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$bookmarks = json_decode(curl_exec($ch_bookmarks), true);

curl_close ($ch_bookmarks);

$xml_header = <<<EOT
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
        xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
        xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
        xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
        xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
        xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
        xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
        >

<channel>
        <title>Neil's Mastodon Bookmarks</title>

EOT;

foreach($bookmarks as $k=>$v) {
        $xml_item[$k] = "\n\t<item>
                <title>{$v['card']['title']}</title>
                <link>{$v['url']}</link>
                
                <pubDate>".date("r", strtotime($v['created_at']))."</pubDate>
                <guid>{$v['url']}</guid>

                <description><![CDATA[<p>Short description here</p>
]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[{$v['content']}
]]></content:encoded>
</item>\n";
}

echo $xml_header;

foreach($xml_item as $bookmark) {
        echo $bookmark;
}

echo "</channel>";
echo "</rss>";
?>


</code>
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