Read Me

This python IRC bot is released under the GPL licence.


INSTALLATION

Place the conf.py and the news.py in a directory of you choice, then use phpmyadmin (or equivalent) to import the SQL files to the database. Edit the conf.py so it fits you needs. Then run the bot by typing python news.py, please make sure you are in the right directory. 

The bot comes with BBC news & CNN as standard, but users can add their own feeds by typing .rss add <command> <url>.

REQUIREMENTS

The bot has been tested on python 2.5.4 and 2.6.0 but might work on earlier/newer versions.

It requires the Tinyurl module, can be downloaded from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/TinyUrl/ and the feedparser module, found at http://www.feedparser.org/.

It does also require the MySQL module, found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/.