Can RSS feeds be sent to IRC?
reddit / irc

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iPhunwa · 2016-09-10 14:10

Hello, I am sorry if this has been requested before. I am new to IRC
and not sure if such a script or bot exists which can announce RSS
feeds directly to an IRC channel?
I did search on Github, but I wasn't able to understand on how to get
them to work. Can someone please link me to a tutorial or guide me
through the process?

Thank you :)

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shacknetisp · 2016-09-10 18:44

This looks like a decent bot in Ruby:
https://github.com/bhaak/cinchfeed2ircbot

You'd install dependencies with `bundle install`, copy
`config.yaml.example` to `config.yaml`, edit it, then run with `rake`.

Another simple bot I found here: http://hub.darcs.net/simon/rss2irc

It's instructions look pretty easy, you just run it with one command
specifying the feed and IRC server/channel.

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rubinlinux · 2016-09-11 03:34

There is a plugin to do this in supybot and it's more up to date forks

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iPhunwa · 2016-09-11 06:02

Hey, thanks for your reply. I managed to install Supybot using this
tutorial

https://altinukshini.wordpress.com/2011/09/10/how-to-install-supybot/

I ran the wizard and I got the bot up and running but I am unsure on
how to get it to send RSS feeds to the channel.. in the setup wizard
it never asked me to enter any feed links?

Sorry, but I am new to Ubuntu. Only ever used Windows before.

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iPhunwa · 2016-09-11 06:07

Hey, thanks for your reply. I'm unsure of Ruby, so I thought I'll give
the second one a try. I have downloaded the tar file. Now I extract it
and run the rss2irc command?

Sorry, but I am new to Ubuntu. Only ever used Windows before.

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shacknetisp · 2016-09-11 12:46

Install these dependencies:

`sudo apt install build-essential cabal-install libghc-utf8-string-
dev`
`sudo apt install libghc-text-dev libghc-stm-dev libghc-split-dev
libghc-safe-dev libghc-regexpr-dev libghc-parsec3-dev`
`sudo apt install libghc-old-locale-dev libghc-network-uri-dev libghc-
network-dev libghc-io-storage-dev`
`sudo apt install libghc-http-types-dev libghc-resourcet-dev libghc-
http-conduit-dev libghc-feed-dev`
`sudo apt install libghc-irc-dev libghc-cmdargs-dev libghc-
safesemaphore-dev`

Open a terminal in the extracted directory and run:

`make`

then

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

Replace the feed and IRC server/channel with your own.

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MuffinMedic · 2016-09-12 01:07

[wookie](https://github.com/mrsmn/wookie) IRC RSS bot