Discord Bot: RSS Feed Reader

This is a simple bot that monitors RSS feeds and announces when new items show up in the feeds.

Live Stream

Watch the video of me building this bot start to finish on YouTube!!!

Running

Create a file named token.secret and put your Discord bot token in that file. Next run the following commands:

pip install poetry
poetry install
poetry run python bot.py

Commands

rss!add [url to RSS feed]

This will add an RSS feed to the bot for the current guild.

rss!remove [url to RSS feed]

This will remove an RSS feed from the bot for the current guild.

rss!list

This will list all of the RSS feeds that the bot is monitoring for the current guild.

rss!setup [text channel]

This will tell the bot which channel to announce new RSS feed items in. This must be run before the bot will function in a guild.

rss!info

Shows which channel the bot is set to use for new RSS feed item announcements.