News posting bot? [Archive]

lucky64

07-23-2006, 11:28 PM

Maybe something like this exists, but I wasn't able to find anything.

I was curious if a hack exists that will take news from a site, and post it in a forum for members to discuss.

AKA on a tech site, they post news about the AMD price cuts, and the 'newsbot' posts a section of the news and a link to the source for them to read fully, and then they can reply to the 'newsbot's post to discuss.

I think, if it doesn't exist, it would be an interesting hack...

peterska2

07-23-2006, 11:32 PM

There are some modifications for 3.5.x that do this. Search for RSS and they should come up.

This is also a default feature in 3.6.x

yessir

07-24-2006, 12:08 AM

Try articlebot. Link is in my sig. It is a paid modification but it is much more developed than the vB 3.6 Feed poster (at this time).

lucky64

07-24-2006, 05:38 AM

Thanks!

imported_infitech

11-22-2006, 10:29 PM

There are some modifications for 3.5.x that do this. Search for RSS and they should come up.

This is also a default feature in 3.6.x
how would i add the content of the feed as well as the title?

peterska2

11-22-2006, 10:32 PM

erm..... google?

seriously, there are loads out there so just stick the topic you want them about and "RSS Feed" in your favorite search engine and take a look.