Feed-to-IRC Bot

RSS feed watcher bot.

Monitors an RSS feed, and posts new items to the IRC channel of your choice.

No data persistence required.

Features

• Easy configuration
• Pull config options from env variables
• Checks feeds every X minutes
• Waits X seconds between posts to not flood the channel

See example.js for a StackOverflow bot that notifies on new questions for given tags.

Options

• server: IRC server the bot will connect to
• secure: bool to encrypt the connection, default true
• channel: channels the bot will join
• nick: name of the bot
• userName: if logging in, and different than nick
• password: required if logging in
• feedUpdateIntervalMins: How often to check feeds, in minutes. Defaults to once an hour.
• msgSendIntervalSecs: How often to process queue, in seconds. Defaults to every 10 seconds
• joinMessage: Message from bot when joining a channel
• itemMessagePrefix: Prefix new items with this message
• aboutMessage: If someone speaks to the bot in the channel like 'nick: '
• debug: if debug = true, console.log a bunch of stuff

TODO

• separate out core into rss irc bot module
• separate out transport and make module for transport agnostic stackbot
• add support for identifying nick
• handle disconnects
• support feed + N room combos (queue entries should contain item+room)
• support un/subscribing from channel (reqs data persistence)