https://github.com/arran4/discord-rss-cron

Very basic cron job discord bot for publishing the latest entry in an rss feed.
https://github.com/arran4/discord-rss-cron

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Very basic cron job discord bot for publishing the latest entry in an rss feed.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/arran4/discord-rss-cron
• Owner: arran4
• Created: 2024-06-30T01:16:27.000Z (5 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-30T02:59:27.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-11T13:59:25.268Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: bot, discord, golang, rss, webhook
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 17.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: readme.md

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# RSS feeds to your discord webhook URL

## Setup

Install

```

go install github.com/arran4/discord-rss-cron/cmd/discord-rss-cron

```

Setup Scheduled task:

```bash

% cd ~/.config/systemd/user/

% cat > discord-rss-cron.timer 

[Unit]

Description=Run discord-rss-cron daily

[Timer]

OnCalendar=daily

Persistent=true

[Install]

WantedBy=timers.target

^D

% cat ~/.config/systemd/user/discord-rss-cron.service

[Unit]

Description=Run discord-rss-cron

DefaultDependencies=no

Conflicts=shutdown.target

After=local-fs.target time-sync.target

Before=shutdown.target

[Service]

Type=oneshot

ExecStart=/home/$USER/go/bin/discord-rss-cron

IOSchedulingClass=idle

^D

% systemctl enable --user discord-rss-cron.timer

Created symlink ~/.config/systemd/user/timers.target.wants/discord-rss-cron.service → ~/.config/systemd/user/discord-rss-cron.service.

```

Ensure you update $USER with your own user name

Configure, get the webhook URL: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks

```

vim ~/.config/discord-npr-tdc-rss-webhook/channel-1

```

With

```

{

  "HookUrl": "https://discord.com/api/webhooks/......",

  "FeedUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=....."

}

```

`^D` means press `CTRL+D`

That should be it.

## Run and test in systemd

```

% systemd-run --user discord-rss-cron        

Running as unit: run-r4acdd1003f7d4de4be2be64ae1be9ad4.service; invocation ID: fa4917cee43c463e9317c32548291cf1

% journalctl -xe --user

```

You should see:

```

Jun 30 11:49:57 discord-rss-cron[287802]: 2024/06/30 11:49:57 Config: /home/$USER/.config/discord-rss-webhook/channel-1

Jun 30 11:49:57 discord-rss-cron[287802]: 2024/06/30 11:49:57 Done nothing found

```