notifeed

Automatically get notifications for new posts on your favorite RSS/Atom feeds.

Installation

pip3 install notifeed
# or
git clone git@github.com:loganswartz/notifeed.git && pip3 install ./notifeed

Usage

~ $ notifeed -h
Usage: notifeed [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --debug     Show debug logging messages
  --db PATH   Path to an SQLite database, or where to save a new one
  -h, --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  add
  delete
  list
  run
  set

Notifeed has 3 main things that need to be configured:

• Feeds to watch
• Available notification channels
• The actual configured notifications (i.e. on a new post to X, send a notification to Y)

To configure these values, you can use notifeed add <feed|channel|notification> .... Here are some examples on how to use them:

Working with Feeds

$ notifeed add feed Dolphin https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/feeds/
Added Dolphin!

$ notifeed add feed MelonDS http://melonds.kuribo64.net/rss.php
Added MelonDS!

$ notifeed list feeds
Currently watching:
  Dolphin (https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/feeds/)
  MelonDS (http://melonds.kuribo64.net/rss.php)

$ notifeed delete feed Dolphin
Deleted Dolphin!

Working with Channels

$ notifeed add channel --type slack MySlackWorkspace <Slack Webhook URL>
Added MySlackWorkspace!

$ notifeed add channel MyDiscordChannel <Discord Webhook URL>
Added MyDiscordChannel!

$ notifeed delete channel MySlackWorkspace
Deleted MySlackWorkspace!

$ notifeed list channels
Available notification channels:
  MyDiscordChannel (discord, <Discord Webhook URL>)

Working with Notifications

$ notifeed add notification Dolphin MySlackWorkspace
Added notification for new posts to Dolphin!

$ notifeed list notifications
Configured notifications:
  New posts to Dolphin --> MySlackWorkspace

$ notifeed delete notification Dolphin MySlackWorkspace
Disabled notifications for Dolphin on MySlackWorkspace

Notifeed will start listening for new posts when you start it via notifeed run. The best way to deploy this is setting it up as a systemctl service, using the provided template service file.

Set poll interval

$ notifeed set poll_interval 1800  # 1800 seconds = 30 minutes

The default polling interval is 15 minutes.

Available Notification Channels

• Slack
• Discord
• Email

Currently, Slack and Discord are supported. Other connectors can be added by implementing a subclass of the NotificationChannelAsync class, specifically the notify method. notify is called with one argument, post (which is of type notifeed.Post), when a new post is found on a feed. Notifeed will automatically import any NotificationChannel subclasses found in modules within the notifications folder of this repo, and the notifications/plugins path specifically is gitignore'd to allow symlinking your own modules into an importable location.

Misc

Configuration data is stored in an SQLite database file. By default, this lives in the root of the project folder.

Service Installation

Install the service file by symbolically linking to it from /etc/systemd/system/:

$ sudo ln -s /path/to/notifeed/notifeed.service /etc/systemd/system/notifeed.service

Then, reload the service daemon, and start the service:

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload && sudo systemctl start notifeed

You'll probably also want to start the service automatically on startup:

$ sudo systemctl enable notifeed

Once the service is running, you can setup notifications, feeds, etc as you would normally with the notifeed command.