hubot-rss-alerts

Hubot watches an RSS feed, announces when there are any new items

Installation

Install the script using npm:

npm install --save hubot-rss-alerts

Enable it by adding to your external-scripts.json file.

[
  ...
  "hubot-rss-alerts",
  ...
]

Configuration

There are two required settings:

• HUBOT_ALERTS_RSS_FEED - should contain the URL of the feed you want Hubot to monitor
• HUBOT_ALERTS_RSS_ANNOUNCE_ROOM - should contain the room name where Hubot will announce new feed items

There are some other optional settings you may want to change:

• HUBOT_ALERTS_RSS_INTERVAL - how often (in seconds) to check the RSS feed - default: 300 (5 minutes)
• HUBOT_ALERTS_RSS_PREPEND - text to prepend to alert messages - default: "RSS Alert"
• HUBOT_ALERTS_RSS_BROKEN_TZ_ADJUSTMENT - if a feed's timezone is broken set this to adjust it - default: 0
• HUBOT_ALERTS_RSS_SKIP_FIRST - skip any items when first checking the feed - default: true (set to false for debugging)

Notes, Plans, etc.

Currently only handles one RSS feed -- I might work on fixing that next.