I've had this running for a couple of weeks now and everything works well. I think it could be further improved by:
- Stripping the HTML tags off some the thread titles before posting. This doesn't particularly look very good. Maybe there's a hack that will parse HTML on thread names?
- The RSS feeds are simply pulled from the respective website. However, every newsfeed will have the latest information at the top of the XML, which is normal bahaviour. However in a forum environment, this is undesirable because the top most item gets posted into the forum first and later threads get posted above as they're newer. The script would need to revserve this to get the desired effect, i.e. newest threads at the top of the forum.
- Having an option to not count posts from the bot that's being used to post. Maybe there's a hack for this too?