News Feed Bot

Bot for Telegram that gets and posts news to a channel.

Features

• Fetching articles from RSS feeds
• Article summaries powered by GPT-3.5
• Admin commands for managing sources

Configuration

Environment variables

• NFB_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN — token for Telegram Bot API
• NFB_TELEGRAM_CHANNEL_ID — ID of the channel to post to, can be obtained via @JsonDumpBot
• NFB_DATABASE_DSN — PostgreSQL connection string
• NFB_FETCH_INTERVAL — the interval of checking for new articles, default 10m
• NFB_NOTIFICATION_INTERVAL — the interval of delivering new articles to Telegram channel, default 1m
• NFB_FILTER_KEYWORDS — comma separated list of words to skip articles containing these words
• NFB_OPENAI_KEY — token for OpenAI API
• NFB_OPENAI_PROMPT — prompt for GPT-3.5 Turbo to generate summary

HCL

News Feed Bot can be configured with HCL config file. The service is looking for config file in following locations:

• ./config.hcl
• ./config.local.hcl
• $HOME/.config/news-feed-bot/config.hcl

The names of parameters are the same except that there is no prefix and names are in lower case instead of upper case.

Nice to have features (backlog)

• More types of resources — not only RSS
• Summary for the article
• Dynamic source priority (based on 👍 and 👎 reactions) — currently blocked by Telegram Bot API
• Article types: text, video, audio
• De-duplication — filter articles with the same title and author
• Low quality articles filter — need research
  • Ban by author?
  • Check article length — not working with audio/video posts, but it will be fixed after article type implementation