NAME

Bot::Cobalt::Plugin::RSS - Monitor RSS feeds via IRC

SYNOPSIS

## In plugins.conf:
RSS:
  Module: Bot::Cobalt::Plugin::RSS
  Config: plugins/rss.conf

## Requires properly configured rss.conf
!plugin load RSS

DESCRIPTION

A Bot::Cobalt plugin.

Monitors an arbitrary number of RSS feeds, reporting new headlines to configured contexts/channels.

Uses XML::RSS::Feed to track and parse feeds.

EXAMPLE CONF

An example configuration file can be installed via the Bot::Cobalt tool cobalt2-plugin-installcf:

$ cobalt2-plugin-installcf --plugin="Bot::Cobalt::Plugin::RSS" \
    --dest="cobalt2/etc/plugins/rss.conf"

If you'd rather write one manually, it might look something like this:

---
## example etc/plugins/rss.conf
Feeds:
  MyFeed:
    URL: 'http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot'
    Delay: 300
    ## If your feed publishes a lot in one go, add delays (sec):
    Spaced: 30
    AnnounceTo:
      Main:
        - '#eris'
        - '#otw'

      AlphaChat:
        - '#perl'

AUTHOR

Jon Portnoy <avenj@cobaltirc.org>