RSS reader bot for Mattermost (and possibly Slack). It will scrape RSS feeds from a config file at a defined interval, and broadcast the source and headlines to a Mattermost channel. Articles are written out to a data file as they are published, to avoid repeats and excessive spam when restarting the bot.
Requires Python 3 w/ configparser, hashids, feedparser, and matterhook
Run without a config.conf to generate a base one. Example config:
[newsbot]
broadcast = True
SECRET_KEY = 9999999999999
baseURL = https://mattermost.yourdomain.com
hook = WEBHOOK
channelname = newsroom
username = newsbot
refresh = 30
nax = 5
[feeds]
feeds = https://news.ycombinator.com/rss,http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/risksrss2.xml
broadcast- Whether to send outputSECRET_KEY- salt used for internal article IDsmax- max # of articles to scrapebaseURL- address of mattermost server, with protocol and optional :porthook- webhook key, ex. http://mattermost.server/hook/FOOBARBAZrefresh- number of minutes between feed updates.feeds- comma delimited list of RSS locationsdebug- verbose console
