telegram-rss-rust

A simple telegram bot for following rss feeds. In Rust.

Build

1. Have rustc and cargo installed. You can use rustup for this.
2. Install pkg-config and libssl. Package names may differ in various distros.
3. Build the project with cargo:

git clone https://github.com/aerfanr/telegram-rss-rust.git
cd telegram-rss-rust
cargo build

You can also create an optimized release build by using:

cargo build --release

Usage

1. Create the config file at /opt/rss.yaml. You can copy rss.yaml and change it.
2. Set TELOXIDE_TOKEN environment variable to your Telegram bot token. You can get a bot token from the BotFather (t.me/BotFather)
3. Set up a redis server
4. Run the program

./target/release/telegram-rss-rust

or

./target/debug/telegram-rss-rust

Configuration

There is an example config file at rss.yaml you can copy and modify it. Here are all the config options:

sites

An array of all rss feeds. Each feed is a yaml object with following options:

• id: An arbitrary name for the feed. This has no purpose at the moment.
• url: Feed url
• expire_delay: Number of seconds to wait before removing each item from the database. Negetive values mean the items are never deleted. Default is 604800 (a weak)
• chats: An array of numeric telegram chat ids to send the recieved feed items to

news_interval

Number of seconds to wait after getting feed updates.

db_host

A string containing the database host. Default value is "localhost".

db_port

A number containing the database port. Defalt value is 6379.