NAME

Wubot::Plugin::RSS - monitor an RSS feed

VERSION

version 0.2_003

SYNOPSIS

~/wubot/config/plugins/RSS/slashdot.yaml

---
tags: news
url: http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
delay: 30m

~/wubot/config/plugins/RSS/my-feed-name.yaml

---
url: http://www.xyz.com/rss
delay: 1h
user: dude
pass: lebowski
proxy: socks://localhost:2080

DESCRIPTION

Monitors an RSS/Atom feed (anything that can be parsed with XML::Feed). Sends a message any time a new article shows up in the feed. The message will contain the following fields:

title: the article title
subject: the article title, used for notifications
link: the link
body: article body

ERRORS

If an error occurs requesting the data, a reactor message will be sent containing the error in the subject, e.g.:

subject: Request failure: 404 Not Found

If the RSS feed cannot be parsed by XML::Feed, a message will be sent containing the XML::Feed->errstr, e.g.:

subject: Failure parsing XML Feed: $error text

If the feed contains no articles, the message will contain the text:

subject: RSS-myfeed: No items in feed

CACHE

The RSS monitor uses the global cache mechanism, so each time the check runs, it will update a file such as:

~/wubot/cache/RSS-myfeed.yaml

The monitor caches all subject in the feed. When a new (previously unseen) subject shows up on the feed, the message will be sent, and the cache will be updated. Removing the cache file will cause all items in the feed to be sent again.

SEE ALSO

This plugin uses Wubot::Util::WebFetcher.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

check( $inputs )

The standard monitor check() method.