Deployment questions

[rjbrown99]

First of all thanks for this repo. I had a few questions, and I'm happy to translate back to a pull request for improved docs.

What I'm trying to do is go from RSS -> Mastodon, which I have working now via IFTTT. Just posts the title/link, but not images. I figured this repo could help with images.

Setup and deploy steps from your docs are now complete, no issues there and it worked "out of the box" on a RHEL8 instance that has node 10. What I'm unclear on are a few things beyond deployment.

1. RE: the last step to set up the database and scheduler, can you add any additional context as to what's required and how it works? My cursory understanding of flow is something like this:

• API request received by the Lambda function
• That request is written into the DynamoDB table
• The scheduler runs periodically to actually reach back out to the Mastodon instance to create the images. This does not happen real-time, it's a batch and happens when the scheduler runs.

If that's the case, I'm also wondering if that can be made to be more real-time so I can take an RSS item that includes an image, have the image uploaded to Mastodon, then have the toot created that includes the image. And how does one create the scheduler/job, do you have any insight as to what yours looks like?

2. What does your IFTTT flow look like? Do you have two applets, one to create images and the other to post the toot via a webhook? Any insight you have here would also be quite helpful.

Thanks again for this. Given the pending demise of Twitter I'm quite motivated to port over much of the content/feeds I'm interested in and this repo/function could be a huge help in doing so.

This is how I'm doing the IFTTT setup now: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12/mastodon-ifttt/