rss

Simple golang rss program that aggregates rss endpoint data & sends a text with the message via Twilio

USAGE

Make sure to add your own appropriate Twilio Account SID and corresponding Authentication Token in main.go. You can create a free Twilio account here: [https://www.twilio.com/try-twilio]

The goal of this project was to demonstrate how easy it is to hit web endpoints and parse the JSON responses in Go
If you want to receive this text each day without manually running the program I suggest setting up a free Amazon EC2 instance and using linux cron jobs. Make sure to install the go language on the machine.
Open /etc/crontab in vim and add 30 7 * * * ec2-user /home/ec2-user/go_projects/src/rss/main if you want the program to run at 7:30 am each day, and 5 17 * * * ec2-user /home/ec2-user/go_projects/src/rss/main for 5:05 pm each day. Ensure that the time on the linux instance is set correctly for your time zone :)