Slixfeed

Syndication bot for the XMPP communication network.

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 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 slixfeed.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 Jehudah, Attorney at Law.
Laura (Instructor, mentor and co-author).

Acknowledgment

Alixander Court
edhelas
habnabit_ from #python on irc.libera.chat (SQL security)
imattau (Some code, mostly URL handling, was taken from imattau)
Link Mauve
magicfelix (async)
Slixmpp participants who chose to remain anonymous or not to appear in this list.

License

GPL-3.0 license

Copyright

Schimon Jehudah 2022 - 2023
Laura 2022 - 2023

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