RSS

first check if you have RSS permission

<dunk> !perms
<gozerbot> you have permissions = USER .. OPER

if this is not the case add it

<dunk> !setperms dunk rss
<gozerbot> ok

see which rss commands the bot has with

<dunk> !apro rss
<gozerbot> 1) rss-url 2) rss-setsleeptime 3) rss-del 4) rss-add 5)
           rss-delchannel 6) rss-delitemslist 7) rss-stopwatch 8)
           rss-addchannel 9) rss-sleeptime 10) rss-list 11) rss-itemslist 12)
           rss-scan 13) rss-watch 14) rss-running 15) rss-get 16)
           rss-additemslist

you will want to add a url to the RSS system, we use slashdot as an example

<dunk> !rss-add slash http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot
<gozerbot> ok

see if the url works

<dunk> !rss-get slash
<gozerbot> 1) TV Piracy is Next 2) Smarter Phones Coming Soon 3) 7
           Megapixel Camera Phone 4) Jon Bringing WMV9 to Linux 5) Wireless
           Mouse with no Batteries 6) Blog Torrent Beta Released 7) Titanic
           Director to Make Battle Angel Movie 8) Malware: Fighting Malicious
           Code 9) Best Tools for Machinima? 10) Nmap Author Receives FBI
           Subpoenas

to let the bot check for updates

<dunk> !rss-watch slash
<gozerbot> watcher thread started

see if the thread is running

<dunk> !rss-running
<gozerbot> 1) slash ['#dunkbots']

if you want to stop watching

<dunk> !rss-stopwatch slash
<gozerbot> ok

see what other data the rss feed has to offer

<dunk> !rss-scan slash
<gozerbot> story = 20 author = 20 link = 20 section = 20 title = 20
           comments = 20 topic = 20 time = 20 department = 20 image = 20
           backslash = 1

this counts the number of times a certain tag is found in the feed.

so if we also want for example the link field added

you can add that item to the itemslist:

<dunk> !rss-additemslist slash link
<gozerbot> ok

check:

<dunk> !rss-get slash
<gozerbot> 1) Cracking the Google Code... Under the GoogleScope -
           http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/1546207 2) Broadway
           Awards Spam - http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/1455206 3)
           More on Last Years Cisco Source Code Theft -
           http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/1339234 4) What Does a
           Spreading Worm Look Like? -
           http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/10/1333202  (+2)

to remove use rss-delitemslist.

poll time

the bot will default poll once every 30 min. if you want the bot to poll every x seconds you can use the rss-setsleeptime command (min is 60 seconds).