Rotter News Headlines Telegram Bot

This Node.js application is a Telegram bot that retrieves news headlines from the Rotter.net Scoops Forum via an RSS feed and sends new headlines as messages to a specified Telegram chat.

It uses node-telegram-bot-api and iconv-lite.

Features

• Fetches RSS feed from Rotter.net at regular intervals (default: every 1 minute).
• Decodes the RSS feed from Windows-1255 encoding using iconv-lite.
• Parses the RSS feed to extract new headlines.
• Sends new headlines to a Telegram chat with clickable links.

Prerequisites

• Node.js installed on your machine.
• A Telegram bot token. You can get this by creating a bot on Telegram using BotFather.
• A Telegram chat ID where the bot will send the messages.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone https://github.com/einatsof/nodejs-rotter-scoops-telegram-bot.git
   cd nodejs-rotter-scoops-telegram-bot

2. Install the dependencies:

npm install

3. Create a .env file with the following contents:

TOKEN=your-telegram-bot-token
CHAT_ID=your-telegram-chat-id

4. Run the bot:

node app.js

Configuration

• TOKEN: Your Telegram bot token.
• CHAT_ID: The ID of the Telegram chat where the bot will send messages.
• INTERVAL: (Optional) The polling interval in milliseconds (default is 60000, or 1 minute).