mmcs news scraper

This project is used to automatically take news from the faculty's website and send them to Telegram's chat room #mmcsfamily.

How it works

The algorithm is simple:

• grab rss feed from the mmcs site
• skip news that were previously sent
• write messages with a special instant view link
• send them to the chat #mmcsfamily

This sequence is reflected in the src/app.js file:

grabRSS(FEED_URL)
  .then(extractPosts)
  .then(skipExisting)
  .then(ps => console.log(`New posts: ${ps.length}`) || ps)
  .then(sendToChat)
  .then(savePosts)

How to build

There is the .env.example file in the project root. Rename it to .env, change variables inside, then download all dependencies by npm i, and run the app with npm start command.

To add a task to cron run crontab -e, then add the line:

*/30 * * * *   cd /root/mmcs-news-scraper/ && /root/.nvm/versions/node/v13.11.0/bin/node -r ./register.js ./src/index.js