Note that if this service is exposed to the internet as-is, anybody will be able to use it. You will have to figure out by yourself how to lock it down in a way that works with your RSS reader.
The app is pretty much a thin proxy for GET /api/v1/bookmarks to arbitrary
hosts. You are responsible for any abuse your hosting of this app enables. The
app already hardcodes a few default rate limits that should suffice, but as
always, this software comes with no strings attached.
Fly.io can be used to host this app for free.
- # on Fly.io and install their CLI tool
flyctl - Clone this repo, and edit
fly.tomlas per instructions in comments - Run
flyctl launchin it
You will get a subdomain at https://*.fly.dev with SSL.
Fly.io mostly prices by egress bandwidth, but for personal use it is highly unlikely that you will exceed the free contingent.
Alternatives to Fly.io are Render and Railway. They are pretty much equivalent in # and ease of use. I've managed to deploy this app with all of them.
Besides the options above, you can host this app on anything where docker can run.
pre-built docker images are available.
If you don't want to use docker, you can run cargo build --release to get a binary that only depends on libc.
Please make sure that your reverse proxy sends the corresponding proxy headers as documented here for IP addresses and here for hostnames. Those are used to enforce (currently hardcoded) per-IP rate limits, and to send the app's own hostname as part of the user-agent that Mastodon admins can see.