charlesbrown502 / rss-chan

A telegram RSS feed reader bot, made in python using feedparser.

A telegram RSS feed reader bot, made in python using feedparser.

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About

A self-hosted telegram bot that dumps posts from RSS feeds to a telegram chat.

I decided to go with BoKKeR's repo as a base for my modifications, since he had already implemented the basic logic for parsing & sending feeds.

The (heavily) modified code addresses a few issues in his repo with some new features of my own. Head over to the changelog section for more.

Deploy

Instructions to deploy the bot to Heroku/locally resides in the wiki.

Usage

The bot uses a Title <-> URL mechanism so that the user doesn't have to mess with the feed URL every-time, instead use a Title to perform a task.

Commands:
• /help: To get the help message
• /list: List your subscriptions
• /get Title 10: Force fetch last n feed(s)
• /sub Title https://www.rss-url.com: Subscribe to a RSS feed
• /unsub Title: Removes the RSS subscription corresponding to it's title
• /unsuball: Removes all subscriptions

Credits

Projects used in the making:

• feedparser
• psycopg2
• python-dotenv
• python-telegram-bot
• RSS-to-Telegram-Bot

Others:

• Repo logo Designed by mamewmy / Freepik
• RSS logo made by Freepik from Flaticon