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README.md

Syndication bot for the XMPP communication network

Slixfeed

Slixfeed aims to be an easy to use and fully-featured news aggregator bot for XMPP. It provides a convenient access to Blogs, Fediverse and News websites along with filtering functionality.

Slixfeed is primarily designed for XMPP (aka Jabber).

Visit https://xmpp.org/software/ for more information.

XMPP

XMPP is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, collaboration, lightweight middleware, content syndication, and generalized routing of XML data.

Visit https://xmpp.org/about/ for more information on the XMPP protocol.

Getting Started

$ python __main__.py
Username: 
Password:

Usage

Start bot;
Add contact JID of Slixfeed to your roster;
Open chat with Slixfeed;
Add news source by sending a <url> (in groupchat, use !<url>).

Feeds

Example feeds you can subscribe to.

https://xmpp.org/feeds/all.atom.xml
https://takebackourtech.org/rss/
https://redecentralize.org/podcast/feed.rss
http://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php
https://www.blacklistednews.com/rss.php
https://theconsciousresistance.com/feed/

Roadmap

Improve asynchronism hadling;
Improve logging and error handling;
Add daemon interface;
Add HTML support (XHTML-IM);
Add feed history tables of last week and last month.

Authors

Schimon (Author).
Laura (Instructor, Mentor and Co-Author).

Acknowledgment

Special thank you to Mrs. Lapina who instructed me all the way to complete this, in addition to significant code fixes.

Laura, I thank you greatly for your encouragement, time and help.

May this bot be a life changing factor to people the world over.

This bot would not be a reality without you.

License

MIT license

Copyright

Schimon Zackary 2022 - 2023
Laura Lapina 2022 - 2023

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