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feed-to-muc
about
feed-to-muc is no more actively developed. It works ok enough and I am not interested to add more features or fix corner cases where it might fail. If you're looking for an actively developed alternative you might want to have a look at Morbot.
feed-to-muc is an XMPP bot which queries Atom or RSS newsfeeds and posts the short summary to a XMPP MUC if there is a new article.
disclaimer
I am no programmer and this bot is a result of a lot of try and error. There are probably lots of quirks that are remains of some wrong paths I went in between. Also a lot is probably solved in a hacky way due to missing experience.
Anyway, it works (for me at least) and so I upload this here. Recommendations about what can be done better improved and so on are very welcome.
requirements
- go >= 1.18
installation
You will find the binary in $GOPATH/bin
or, if set, $GOBIN
.
$ go install salsa.debian.org/mdosch/feed-to-muc@latest
configuration
If the flag -config
is not used the configuration is expected at
$HOME/.config/feed-to-muc/config.json
in this format:
{
"ServerAddress": "example.com:5222",
"BotJid": "feedbot@example.com",
"Password": "ChangeThis!",
"Muc": "muc-to-feed@conference.example.com",
"MucNick": "feedbot",
"Contact": "xmpp:botadmin@example.com",
"MaxArticles": 5,
"RefreshTime": 30,
"NoExcerpt": false,
"Quiet": false,
"Filter": [ "submitted by", "[link]" ],
"FilterMessage": [ "Block me!", "Block me too!" ],
"Feeds": [ "https://www.debian.org/News/news",
"https://www.debian.org/security/dsa-long",
"https://www.reddit.com/r/FDroidUpdates/new.rss" ]
}
MaxArticles
is the maximum number of articles that are sent per
feed and query. If NoExcerpt
is set to true no excerpt will be
posted. RefreshTime
defines the interval for checking the feeds
in seconds.
With Filter
you can specify strings for filtering out lines
beginning with those strings, with FilterMessage
you can filter
out complete postings containing the string.
Contact
is for providing contact information about who is running
the bot.
If you don't want additional noise in the MUC you can set Quiet
to disable bot queries (e.g. contact) in the MUC (queries per
private message are still available).