HuskyBot Wishlist

[dziban303]

At Kaz's suggestion I'm opening an issue regarding adding RSS capability to HuskyBot. And since I'm doing that, I may as well enumerate some other feature requests. Items presented in no particular order, just skimming the stream of consciousness.

1. RSS – Feature would ideally periodically check RSS sources for new content and then post what's found to a designated channel. At least fifteen sources would be required for NHC products, more would be handy for blog posts we monitor through IFTTT and Zapier.

2. Twitter – New tweets from selected accounts posted in specified channels.

3. Reddit – Links to new threads posted to subreddits would be placed in designated channels.

[KazWolfe]

What's the highest reasonable delay between a post being made and Husky forwarding it to you? In other words, what's the longest reasonable time you can wait between the bot checking for new entries?

[dziban303]

Maybe 10 minutes?

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[dziban303]

The RSS bot seems to be working pretty well. Consequently, huskybot rss integration isn't a prioty 'want' anymore.

I did come up with another "would be nice" feature though: definition lookups. Based on the decronym bot idea, I've got a json file of acronyms for use by the IRC bot to provide definitions of initialisms. This would be a pretty useful feature given the surfeit of FLA/TLAs found in meteorology:

User: /define ATCF
PossumBot: Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast system, the database used by the NHC and others to track cyclone positions and forecast points. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Tropical_Cyclone_Forecasting_System