rss2irc: watches an RSS/Atom feed and writes it to an IRC channel

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rss2irc is an IRC bot that polls an RSS or Atom feed and announces updates to an IRC channel, with options for customizing output and behavior. It aims to be an easy-to-use, reliable, well-behaved bot.

Usage: rss2irc FEEDURL [BOTNAME@IRCSERVER/#CHANNEL] [OPTS]

For example, to announce Hackage uploads (like hackagebot):

$ rss2irc http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss mybot@irc.freenode.org/#haskell

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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.2, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.1, 1.2
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Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), bytestring, cmdargs, containers, deepseq, feed (>=1 && <1.1), http-client (>=0.2.1 && <0.6), http-conduit (>=1.9 && <2.4), http-types (>=0.6.4 && <1.0), io-storage (>=0.3 && <0.4), irc (>=0.6 && <0.7), network (>=2.6 && <2.7), network-uri (>=2.6 && <2.7), old-locale, parsec, regexpr (>=0.5 && <0.6), resourcet (>=0.4.4 && <1.3), safe (>=0.2 && <0.4), SafeSemaphore (>=0.10 && <1.1), split (>=0.2 && <0.3), stm (>=2.1 && <3.0), text (>=0.11 && <1.3), time (>=1.5 && <1.10), transformers (>=0.2 && <0.6), utf8-string [details]
Tested with ghc ==8.0
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>, Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Maintainer Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Category IRC
Home page http://hackage.haskell.org/package/rss2irc
Source repo head: darcs get http://hub.darcs.net/simon/rss2irc
Uploaded by SimonMichael at 2018-06-29T12:19:26Z
Distributions Debian:1.2
Reverse Dependencies 1 direct, 0 indirect [details]
Executables rss2irc
Downloads 12061 total (17 in the last 30 days)
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Last success reported on 2018-06-29 [all 3 reports]

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rss2irc is an IRC bot that polls an RSS or Atom feed and announces updates to an IRC channel, with options for customizing output and behavior. It aims to be an easy-to-use, reliable, well-behaved bot.

Usage: rss2irc [OPTIONS] FEEDURL [IRCSERVER[:PORT]/[#]CHANNEL/NICK]

Example:

$ rss2irc http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss irc.freenode.net/mychannel/mybot

Known limitations:

  • If the feed goes down for a while and then comes back up, the bot may re-announce all items.

  • Memory is leaked on each poll, causing rss2irc bots to consume more memory over time. This will be more noticeable when feeds have large content and are polled frequently. Restarting rss2irc bots daily is recommended.