name: rss2irc version: 0.4 homepage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/rss2irc license: BSD3 license-file: LICENSE author: Don Stewart , Simon Michael maintainer: Simon Michael category: Network synopsis: Watch an RSS/Atom feed and write it to an IRC channel description: 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 FEEDURL [BOTNAME@IRCSERVER/#CHANNEL] [OPTS] > 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 minutes before starting (helps avoid mass joins) > -i N --interval=N polling interval in minutes (default 5) > --idle=N announce only when channel has been idle N minutes (default 0) > -m N --max-items=N announce at most N items per polling interval (default 5) > -r N --recent=N announce up to N recent items at startup (default 0) > --announce=topnew|allnew|top which items to announce (default: topnew) > --no-title don't show title (title is announced by default, up to 100 chars) > -a --author show author (up to 50 chars) > -d --description show description (up to 300 chars) > -l --link show link URL (up to 200 chars) > -t --time show timestamp (up to 50 chars) > -e --email show email addresses (stripped by default) > -h --html show HTML tags and entities (stripped by default) > --dupe-descriptions show identical consecutive descriptions (elided 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 (same as no irc argument) > --debug-irc show irc activity > --debug-feed show feed items and polling stats > --debug-xml show feed content > --debug-http show feed fetching progress > 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 http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/recent.rss mybot@irc.freenode.org/#haskell . Release notes for 0.4, 2009/09/25: . * wait for server connection confirmation before JOIN command. Problem was observed on irc.quakenet.org since it refuses to join or any commands before connection is confirmed by server. (Radoslav Dorcik) . * feed polling now recovers from transient failures . * can poll a local file: uri as well as remote uris Works if the uri is of the form "file:FILE", at least. Useful for testing and eg for announcing a feed generated from a darcs posthook. . * more robust new item detection, with some alternate strategies available via the --announce option. The choices are: topnew - new unseen items at the top (default, good for most feeds); allnew - new unseen items anywhere top - any items above the previous top item. . * --idle option, waits for N minutes of channel idle time before announcing . * --delay now takes minutes, not seconds . * limit individual field sizes, preventing too many irc messages per item Most announcements should now fit in one irc message, and pretty much all should fit in two. . * misc. announcement output improvements: elide identical consecutive item descriptions, split long announcements on a word boundary, try to complete a split announcement within a batch, better whitespace handling . * logging improvements . stability: experimental tested-with: GHC==6.8, GHC==6.10 cabal-version: >= 1.6 build-type: Simple executable rss2irc main-is: rss2irc.hs ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-orphans build-depends: base >= 3 && < 5, extensible-exceptions >= 0.1 && < 0.2, feed >= 0.3 && < 0.4, haskell98, HTTP >= 4000.0.3 && < 4000.1, irc >= 0.4 && < 0.5, mtl >= 1.1 && < 1.2, network >= 2.2 && < 2.3, parallel >= 1.1 && < 1.2, regexpr >= 0.5 && < 0.6, split >= 0.1 && < 0.2, strict-concurrency >= 0.2 && < 0.3, tagsoup >= 0.6 && < 0.7, time >= 1.1 && < 1.2 source-repository head type: darcs location: http://joyful.com/repos/rss2irc