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24/7 feed fetcher

R S S B O T

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NAME

RSSBOT - 24/7 feed fetcher.

DESCRIPTION

RSSBOT is a python3 bot able to display rss feeds in your channel.

It provides all the tools to program a bot, such as disk perisistence

for configuration files, event handler to handle the client/server

connection, code to introspect modules for commands, deferred

exception handling to not crash on an error, a parser to parse

commandline options and values, etc.

You can copy/paste the service file and run it under systemd for

24/7 presence in a IRC channel.

SYNOPSIS

rssbot <cmd> [key=val]

rssbot [-c] [-v]

rssbotd

INSTALL

pipx install rssbot

USAGE

default action is doing nothing

$ rssbot

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first argument is a command

$ rssbot cmd

cfg,cmd,dpl,mre,nme,pwd,rem,rss,ver

starting a console requires an option

$ rssbot -c

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to start the rssbot as daemon

$ rssbot -d

$

add -v if you want to have verbose logging

$ rssbot -cv

RSSBOT started Wed Nov 8 15:38:56 2023 CVI

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CONFIGURATION

irc configuration is done with the cli interface using the cfg command

$ rssbot cfg server=<server>

$ rssbot cfg channel=<channel>

$ rssbot cfg nick=<nick>

sasl need a nickserv nick/password pair to generate a password for sasl

$ rssbot pwd <nsnick> <nspass>

$ rssbot cfg password=<frompwd>

rss has several configuration commands

$ rssbot rss <url>

$ rssbot dpl <url> <item1,item2>

$ rssbot rem <url>

$ rssbot nme <url> <name>

COMMANDS

here is a list of the commands (use rssbot <cmd>)

cfg - irc configuration

cmd - commands

dpl - sets display items

mre - displays cached output

pwd - sasl nickserv name/pass

rem - removes a rss feed

rss - add a feed

SYSTEMD

save the following it in /etc/systems/system/rssbot.service and replace “<user>” with the user running pipx

[Unit]

Description=24/7 feed fetcher

Requires=network.target

After=network.target

[Service]

Type=simple

User=<user>

Group=<user>

WorkingDirectory=/home/<user>/.rssbot

ExecStart=/home/<user>/.local/pipx/venvs/rssbot/bin/rssbotd

RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

if you don’t have a ~/.rssbot directory you need to create it

$ mkdir ~/.rssbot

then run this

$ sudo systemctl enable rssbot –now

default channel/server is #rssbot on localhost

FILES

~/.rssbot

~/.local/bin/rssbot

~/.local/bin/rssbotd

~/.local/pipx/venvs/rssbot/

AUTHOR

Bart Thate <[e-mail]>

COPYRIGHT

RSSBOT is Public Domain.