klarkc / ssb-bot-feed

Scuttlebutt bot that read RSS feeds and post updates automatically

ssb-bot-feed

Scuttlebutt bot that read RSS feeds and post updates automatically

Usage

Download and run ssb-server

npm install -g ssb-bot-feed

Syntax:

ssb-bot-feed [feed1] [feed2] [feedN]

Example:

ssb-bot-feed http://www.nintendolife.com/feeds/news

By default It connects on localhost:8008 (ssb-server) and uses ~/.ssb settings.

Full documentation: ssb-bot-feed --help.

Docker

The docker image assumes that you have a ssb-server listening on localhost:8008

~/.ssb is the path to .ssb folder where bot will load secrets and manifest

docker run -d --name ssb-bot-feed \
   --network="host" \
   --restart=always \
   -v ~/.ssb:/root/.ssb \
   klarkc/ssb-bot-feed -h localhost -p 8008 http://www.nintendolife.com/feeds/news

Alternatives

• marine-master/ssb-bot-feed more robust fork with yaml configuration and more features (unmaintained)

ssb-bot-feed's Issues

Feature Enhancement: Please make message customisable

This code clip here defines the post that will be made to SSB. It would be helpful if it were possible to have this as the default, but allow you to override this blob with your own message.

For example, rather than linking to the whole post, it would be helpful if I could just have

I wrote a blog post: "[${entry.title}](${link})"

${image}

Feature Enhancement: Please truncate description to fit inside the 8k character limit

My blog regularly contains a long body text. Following a recently published post, I found this in my ssb-bot-feed log:

Nov 01 22:28:34 jon ssb-bot-feed[32183]: publishing update for entry: #OggCamp ’19 – A review and Talk Summary
Nov 01 22:28:34 jon ssb-bot-feed[32183]: error publishing: encoded message must not be larger than 8192 bytes

It would be useful to crop the description in the blog post to the length of the available space.

Cannot find package 'ssb-client' when run the latest docker image

$ sudo docker run klarkc/ssb-bot-feed
internal/process/esm_loader.js:74
    internalBinding('errors').triggerUncaughtException(
                              ^

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'ssb-client' imported from /usr/src/ssb-bot-feed/index.js
    at packageResolve (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:664:9)
    at moduleResolve (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:705:18)
    at Loader.defaultResolve [as _resolve] (internal/modules/esm/resolve.js:819:11)
    at Loader.resolve (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:89:40)
    at Loader.getModuleJob (internal/modules/esm/loader.js:242:28)
    at ModuleWrap.<anonymous> (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:73:40)
    at link (internal/modules/esm/module_job.js:72:36) {
  code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}