EccoBot

This bot periodically crawls a NodeBB forum and sends new posts to a specified telegram group

Why that strange name? Because when you see a new post, you will say: "ecco!" Thus, EccoBot.

Config file

File: eccobot.cfg

[forum]
url = http://forum.gdgcatania.org
frequency_s = 3600
categories = 

[db]
name = 
user = 
password = 

[telegram]
token = # Ask @BotFather
# How to get the chat-id
# Add the bot to a chat
# Visit the link below
# https://api.telegram.org/bot<TOKEN>/getUpdates
# Use relevant id from chat
channel = 

[log]
name = bot.log

Useful docs/links:

http://forum.gdgcatania.org/api/recent/posts

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/72c75bd7813b2bb41dc175ce6f7fe9fa58eed006/src/routes/api.js

Via RSS: http://forum.gdgcatania.org/recent.rss

Possible to have pagination too, but should be enabled by the forum admins. See post: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/8485/get-all-posts/9

TODO

• Read configuration from file
  • forum to crawl
  • categories to watch
  • db config
  • telegram channel to use
• Crawler