twister-rss-bot

The twister-rss-bot is RSS bot for twister P2P written in PHP 8.

It uses the twister-php library to interact with twisterd node through the JSON-RPC API and supports following features:

  • multiple feed providers
  • custom tags configuration
  • can send messages to different twister accounts (that you own)

Requirements

Installation

apt install composer git

Runtime

apt install php-curl php-fpm php-mbstring php-pdo php-sqlite3 php-xml

Install

tip

As this software was initially created to be used with crontab, it is recommended to create a new system user with a home directory and continue installation from there. Use following steps to create new system user:

  • useradd -m twister-rss-bot
  • su twister-rss-bot
  • cd ~
  • git clone https://github.com/twisterarmy/twister-rss-bot-php.git
  • cd twister-rss-bot-php
  • composer update

Setup

  • cp config.example.json config.json
  • nano config.json - setup your twister connection, tags and RSS feeds!

Usage

  • crontab -e - open crontab configuration from system user
    • @hourly php src/cli/bot.php - update feeds every hour (see more examples)
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