The rss2irc package

This bot polls a single RSS or Atom feed and announces updates to an IRC channel, with options for customizing output and behavior. It aims to be a simple, dependable bot that does its job and creates no problems.

 Usage: rss2irc [OPTS] FEEDURL [irc://]BOTNAME@IRCSERVER/#CHANNEL
    or: rss2irc [OPTS] FEEDURL (same as --debug)
 Options:

   -p PORT  --port=PORT          irc server port (default 6667)
            --ident=STR          set the bot's identity string (useful for contact info)
            --delay=N            wait for N seconds before starting (helps avoid mass joins)
   -i N     --interval=N         polling interval in minutes (default 5)
   -r N     --recent=N           announce up to N recent items at startup (default 0)
   -m N     --max-items=N        announce at most N items per polling interval (default 5)
            --no-title           don't show title (title is announced by default)
   -a       --author             show author
   -d       --description        show description
   -l       --link               show link URL
   -t       --time               show timestamp
   -e       --email              show email addresses (these are stripped by default)
   -h       --html               show HTML tags and entities (these are stripped by default)
            --replace="OLD/NEW"  replace OLD with NEW (regexpr patterns)
   -n N     --num-iterations=N   exit after N iterations
   -q       --quiet              silence normal console output
            --debug              do not connect to irc
            --debug-irc          show irc activity
            --debug-feed         show feed items and polling stats
            --debug-xml          show feed content
            --debug-http         show feed fetching progress

For example, to announce Hackage updates:

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

Properties

Versions	0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.1, 0.4.2
Dependencies	base (≥3 & <5), extensible-exceptions (0.1.), feed (0.3.), HTTP (≥4000.0.3 & <4000.1), mtl (1.1.), network (2.2.), parallel (1.1.), regexpr (0.5.), split (0.1.), strict-concurrency (0.2.), tagsoup (0.6.), time (1.1.)
License	BSD3
Author	Don Stewart <dons@galois.com>, Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Maintainer	Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Stability	experimental
Category	Network
Home page	http://hackage.haskell.org/package/rss2irc
Source repository	darcs get http://joyful.com/repos/rss2irc
Executables	rss2irc
Upload date	Mon Aug 24 19:26:04 UTC 2009
Uploaded by	SimonMichael
Built on	ghc-6.10
Distributions	Debian: 0.4.2

Downloads

rss2irc-0.3.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
package description (included in the package)