newsie

Newsie

Read, collate, and return a series of RSS feeds into an IRC channel or chat

This bot makes a couple of assumptions:

1. You've a SASL account for this bot to use
2. You've enabled actions notifications in github for failed/successful runs

This bot requires the following env vars:

• $SASL_USER - the user to connect with
• $SASL_PASSWORD - the password to connect with
• $SERVER - IRC connection details, as irc://server:6667 or ircs://server:6697 (ircs implies irc-over-tls)
• $VERIFY_TLS - Verify TLS, or sack it off. This is of interest to people, like me, running an ircd on localhost with a self-signed cert. Matches "true" as true, and anything else as false
• $RSS_FEEDS - A comma separated list of RSS Feeds to parse and load headlines from
• $TZ - Timezone to display headlines in

The SASL mechanism is hardcoded to PLAIN.

Building

This bot can be built using pretty standard go tools:

$ go build

Or via docker:

$ docker build -t foo .

Running

If you've built the app yourself, then happy day- there's your binary!

Otherwise I suggest via docker:

$ docker build -t foo .
$ docker run foo

(Setting the above environment variables accordingly)