So I'm trying to workshop a bot that post news to accounts and communities based on American countries. I have looked into rss feeds and not every news source has one so it seems more like I have to go the scraper route. I decided to start with YouTube links because YouTube has an API and that would make it easy to get the information from. I'm hoping to make this open sourced, and im figure out a software structure.

The hole idea is to build up niches in fediverse to keep people retaining hopefully I can this program easy enough to use

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

U run !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com that's based on RSS feeds and its open source

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago

Check rss parrot, and rss.ponder.cat

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 11 points 13 hours ago

I think there's several open source rss-to-lemmy bots already so I think there's not much need for another one. If you want to do it for experience go ahead but not sure it's necessary.

Also, be careful with how often the bot posts etc. Filling inactive communities with botposts usually does not help with actual user activity.

[–] drainage88878@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

Cool ! Please share once you have something I'll be happy to contribute.