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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 (i.e. Akkoma, Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma etc.) and News websites.

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 and https://xmpp.org/software/ for list of XMPP clients.

Slixfeed is primarily designed for XMPP (aka Jabber), yet it is built to be extended to other protocols.

Features

Simultaneous

Slixfeed is designed to handle multiple contacts, including groupchats, Simultaneously.

Ease

Slixfeed automatically scans (i.e. crawls) for web feeds of given URL.

Filtering

Slixfeed provides positive and nagative ways to filter by allow and deny lists.

Proxy

Redirect to alternative online back-ends, such as Invidious, Librarian, Nitter, for increased privacy and productivity and security.

Getting Started

Install

$ pipx install git+https://gitgud.io/sjehuda/slixfeed

Start

$ slixfeed

Usage

  • Start a chat with the bot and follow it instructions.
  • Send command help or commands for a list of commands.

Roadmap

  • Add service interface;
  • 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

  • Laura (Co-Author, Instructor and Mentor).
  • Schimon (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. This bot would not have existed without you.

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

License

MIT license.

Copyright

  • Laura Lapina 2022 - 2023
  • Schimon Zackary 2022 - 2024

Similar Projects

Please visit our friends who offer different approach to convey RSS to XMPP.

  • AtomToPubsub RSS feeds as XMPP Pubsub Nodes.

  • err-rssreader A port of old Brutal's RSS Reader for Errbot.

  • feed-to-muc An XMPP bot which posts to a MUC (groupchat) if there is an update in newsfeeds.

  • JabRSS Never miss a headline again! JabRSS is a simple RSS (RDF Site Summary) headline notification service for Jabber.

  • Morbot Morbo is a simple Slixmpp bot that will take new articles from listed RSS feeds and send them to assigned XMPP MUCs (groupchats).